It is not the grass growing on the sand
dunes
or the way the beach recedes into the distance
Spaulding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia
a kind of obsession with certain names and dates
How CIA Director Richard Helms destroyed the records that revealed the names and circumstances
Jim Pomeroy, whose works, 'Apollo JEST', for instance, satirized NASA programs
The incongruous presence of so much atomic energy research on the Berkeley campus