Rosamond Press

Rena Victoria Easton and Ambrose Bierce have several things in common

1. They lived in a tent within the city limits of Oakland.
2. They befriended Bohemian types and love poetry.

In her letter Rena says she has committed a million poems to memory.
When I lost my beautiful young muse, I took one of those terrible inventories and came up with a List of Un-worthiness. At the top of the list was; “I was homeless, and we lived in a tent.”

When I heard Rena married a Commodore and lived on the Isle of Wight, I became even more ashamed of our white canvas abode, for surely Rena and Ian lived in one of those fine and ancient stone estates that had been in the family for years.

Our tent was Rena’s first home. She lived in tent with a beautiful young man. One of the best memories I…