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June 2 '65
Monhegan

Reading Jeffires, about the rocks and air of Carmel, and thinking of Northern California
The landscape above Bolinas, and of other places by the sea, the wild and fierce places where there is wind, where the land + the sea dominate the whole time. Thinking of my long search, a search begun back around 1940 when I first became aware of my destiny, when I discovered the significance of place, the red cliffs beyond Kealia, 10-C Beach, and the loneliness of the wild coast and of places that reach out into vastness. Thinking of all my years and the places I have known and still yearning for other places that I should know and see, I am brought face to face with the fact that here, here on this island there is much, very much for me, and I should now acknowledge it, at least some of it, that which can be acknowledged in words. 

There is the fact of distance