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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 […]

CAPSTAN CHANTEY (after hours) memories gather thick and random no more welcome than gnats whirring over the moss on the fragrant hummock the old pine left in dying i was thirty then just finding life uneasily blissful in my new and doomed marriage a late bloomer husbanding trouble and strife that warm atlantic night kathy […]