The Making of "Rain on Cabrillo"

A poetry collection

Photo by the author, Mark Tulin, at E. Cabrillo Boulevard, Santa Barbara.

Writing a poetry collection began for me on a May morning in 2019. The time was approximately 11 a.m. I was sitting in my parked car on Cabrillo Boulevard, gazing at the Pacific Ocean. Cabrillo is a boulevard along the scenic shoreline in Santa Barbara, California.

Then the sun turned to rain. What a beautiful image, I thought. The raindrops slid…