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Hyperrealistic fine-art painting inspired by GROUNDING OUT IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA by Michael C. Ford.

2026

GROUNDING OUT IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

By Michael C. Ford

“GROUNDING OUT IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA” by Michael C. Ford is a poem centered on place and geography, memory, family. Its imagery is anchored in Pasadena, California. The poem develops its subject through recurring images and shifts in emotional pressure rather than reducing the experience to a single statement.