TEN PHOTOGRAPHS “What’s that?” she asked me, pointing to the wall above my desk. “A photograph, a down- load from the Net, the house we rented near Monhegan’s southern tip last year,” I said. “My gosh,” she grinned, “you’ve got a hundred of them!” “Only ten,” I told her. “Only ten.” Impromptu workplace shrine, these […]

MORE SCENES OF ISLAND LIFE THAT WANT PAINTING an aerial view at night from out beyond those stars of illuminating fires burning within each darkened house or studio this never changing horizon: the ever-deepening blue below infused from above with a shifting yellow and some pink, painted solely to express how you can inhabit a […]

AUGUST 1957 — for R — wed just two days our trusty ten-year old Pontiac, brand new to us “only 4000 miles on it — I just drove it to church on Sundays” spent half of the eight hundred dollars we’d saved the other half for our honeymoon – his first vacation in five years […]