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Last Day on Monhegan – Sally Woolf-Wade

Marjorie Mir

LAST DAY ON MONHEGAN Columbus Day, 2002   The mist dribbles down, heavy with salt stirred around by wind from the East scooped up from spray on White Head, Black, Burnt Head and Lobster Cove. Surf explodes skyhigh like geysers  with shuddering, thunderous terror. A child and her father run down the road in haste […]

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Monhegan Farewell

Peter

Labor Day 2010  has just past.  And as often observed, there has been a change in the air as the temperatures have dropped following whatever was of Hurricane Earl. For the Raquel (Ricki) and Peter Boehmer family, a seismic change beyond that of the air has descended upon us.  After our marvelous Monhegan years, we […]

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Just passing through

Peter

Just passing through  For more than three decades I identified with Monhegan Island. Even to the point of claiming “peter at monhegan” as my e-mail address. The fact is that Peter is no longer at Monhegan. We’ve all shed as many identities as our lobsters have shed their shells. When our family moved onto the […]

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A Walk on Monhegan – George Anthony

Marjorie Mir

  A Walk on Monhegan: an Excerpt                         The path opens to tote road leaving wood-dusk with the sweet  odors of fir balsam and skunk cabbage.  A wood-cock churrs.  The village is washed and fragrant (fresh home-made bread and butter in the garden) The morning-glories and […]

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Six Knots Tied on Pulpit Rock – Matt Kiell

Marjorie Mir

SIX KNOTS TIED ON PULPIT ROCK (A Painter Observes…Then Paints) 1) What is this isolation That he feels? Alone He sits upon this rock And conducts communion With song birds perched On thorny branches Singing plaintive songs That carry past the trees.   2) What is this isolation That he alone feels? Are these clouds […]

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