DID MOTHERS KNOW? Did mothers know about the schemes of children about the secret places, about smoking cigarettes, about climbing slippery high rocks on a foggy day, about cooking periwinkles in rusty cans, prying them out with rusty nails, and savoring them with our unborn palates? Did mothers know about stories shared, about tears shed […]

STITCH & BITCH The women settle, their needles click in thick air. At the window one heart-red geranium lists toward light, three paper whites wrest from fisted bulbs, their roots worm about the small stones. The coffee steams, cakes slant on the sideboard beside the china plates and cream, spills of yarn pool in russet […]

MONHEGAN SUMMER DAY Reflections from the Pierce House Porch Primroses, Chrysanthemums Phlox Artemisia Marsh grass yellow, brown, green Swallows’ orange breasts, slate gray backs Seascapes Crashing surf Lobster traps Stacked five high Laundry on lines Graveyard stones Face the village and harbor From 18th century Brackett Pierce Trefethren Starling Orne Wait staff time off Sitting […]