"Free Love, Free Fall, Scenes from the West Coast Sixties" by Merimée Moffitt
The stories start on the Coast and end, the last few of them, in northern NM, early 1970s. Please join us for slices of time and events from those special years. Merimée lives in an oasis inside the city of Albuquerque. The hawks and the owl are keeping the pigeons and doves out of her way this summer. When the hawks come to roost, the doves get scarce. She spent two years acting out with Code Pink, an International Women’s Peace group she first ran into at a war protest in Portland, Oregon, the city from which she fled in May of 1970 to find her friend who was living in El Rito at the time. This poet fell in love with everything northern New Mexico. The blue hollyhocks growing up adobe walls in Talpa, the view of the gorge, the beavers in the creek in Vallecitos, and mostly, the sun every single day. In her 46 years here in NM she has raised a family, two sons, two daughters, and enjoys her four grandchildren. She has taught at almost every level from pre-school to college and still dabbles in teaching on-line classes for Story Circle Network. She is a poet and memoirist and is at work on her third book, a book of poems primarily linked by some aspect of the drug epidemic. She has also been an editor of a long-running poetry broadside, co-hosted Dime Stories for four years, and will assume the duties in October of editing The Sunday Poem blog on Duke City Fix. Contact her for other info at merimeemoffitt1@mac.com