TIDEPOOLS ARE ISLANDS FOR FISHES

The tide lowers out of the San Joaquin: the gorges between the starfish arms of foothills, the scrub and brush of land urchins and field anemones. Pooling in its pits and creases, combine ruts, tractor furrows form dusty snow globes trapping beef cattle, crop fields, buildings kelped around fruit shacks, entire low lying developments.