Portland, Oregon

Neighborhood bars and aardvark sauce
Thick coffee and weirdo art
Quadrant love, cigarettes and bikes
Homeless kids and voodoo nights

Pearl district and stripper legs
Dim walks late night to kill the pain
Drizzling roof tops fire escapes
Lost boys and girls waiting for the train

Mazes of books three stories high
River walks street market rides
Happy hour feasts on the cheap
Full sail, Deschutes, Rogue — the tastes

Clear days of Hood in the distance
Ring of fire realizations
Keep it weird keep it strange
Hippies, grunge and hipsters it’s all the same

—JM