To imagine, mom in tacoma, 1959, her mom teaching in the public schools, single, older sister older brother groanup, marriage and war, the puget sound nothing like oklahoma city, airplane makers oilfield roustabouts whales and cattle, plaid or pendleton, tacoma must seemed worldly, at the edge, is that the space needle glinting across the bay, it's all fabricated, stories and stories just to eat a banana split and look thru 100 pound opera glasses at the trolley or pier or penthouse, tacoma log trucks, asian people, maybe some russians, mom the new kid from the rodeo oil musical swept across the plains, landed in tacoma, fallout shelter drills, flowers flowering mushrooms trees a car could pass thru the ocean fog and smell, just mom and mom, father far away further sic further sic vader sic postcards sic homesick and double entendre sunset Tacoma