‘Dove and Dog Soldier’

The Portland Straw That Broke the Cracker’s Back: 3/12/25, Selek, Washington

I have written numerous articles, three I think, about never returning to Portland. I thought, those times, it was a done deal. But Dove would text and ask me to please come back and to make Portland my home. She would get angry when I said I was homeless and snap, in a gentle way, “Portland is your home?”

Twice I returned and we hammered out a cracker-h…