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  SLEEPWALKERS: MONHEGAN ISLAND They are unseen presences on the road, passing each other unaware on paths narrowed by aster and bayberry opening to the sea. They are walking through what was, step surely over tangles of juniper, shifting stones toward a day of particular happiness, of clear, full-throated praise. Far inland, wrapped and sheltered, […]

THAT JANUS MONTH Harry ambles by in his red blanket coat, circles his houses, mending, tending. Rita rouses to her routine and makes for Carina though Newt has left the island, his flying speech run off into silence. The clock ticks; a few finches worry about cats. Today there is no sea but for the […]

JANUARY SNOW  A New Year’s snow, the snow untouched, the road is forked ahead, without a footprint or a track. The winter-morning shadows lean and indicate the right, but we want left where no one lives in winter, ‘round the bend and down the hill, a shuttered cottage on  the cove. It’s hard to visualize […]