Pedregosa St.

<p>Between 1997 and 2025 poet Enid Osborn lived in a 2-story Italianate Victorian boarding house built circa 1902 in Westside Santa Barbara California in a cul-de-sac abutting the railroad and freeway. Blending autobiography magic realism and fiction Osborn paints a picture of a charmed-if-spartan life. Poems focus mainly on the early years of her tenancy when the house stood amid a crumbling neighborhood in gang territory--an area which gentrified in later years. Subthemes include trains insomnia ghosts rats birds colorful neighbors surviving cancer and living long enough in one place to play a bit role in its metamorphosis.</p><p></p>