WRITER, ON HIS LAST MORNING, SITS DOWN ON THE ROCKS BY DEADMAN’S COVE TO WRITE My three weeks are so swiftly evaporating, The spring chill of my arrival day Finally has burned away and Even here 10 miles out in the Atlantic, Summer’s heat has arrived. After the lupines’ dazzling displays Have given way to […]

REACHING OUT A hand from the present stretches backward to touch the heart from the past, gently reinforcing, affirming the common love of an island, a place that changes. Not to worry, says the outstretched hand, your love and memory are safe here, understood here, despite the changing times. No need to become lost in […]

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 […]