east and west

the volleyball hit the end of i think it was my thumb and it took weeks to heal....i remember the guy whose specialty was standing behind the baseline and when the ball was just about to land - just inside the line - he would dive and punch the ball into the air and over the net

i remember moving from an apartment complex to a flat with a bay window and an ocean view and wood floors...the apartment complex was new and clean, but the flat was one of the nicest places i've lived and there was a bookshop there all my life i've been near the beach or outwest....moving further and further outwest until visting places that were closer to the city was like going back in time and then, when I moved east, visiting places in the west was like going back in time