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September 5, by Marjorie Mir

September 5th Summer ebbs out. We look for warmth where we can find it, cat and companion in tide-pools of sun, until chill air stirs us, moves us on, itinerants, following a season’s shoreline, light’s retreating tide as far as time allows. Marjorie Mir

September by Jan Bailey

And now the slow slide into autumn: the thinning crickets, the monarchs moving weightless among us like orange angels, the tight-lipped rose hips; the brown curl of aspen leaf, the bikes tossed willy-nilly on the schoolhouse lawn. Even the shadows slide, like blue cloaks about the apple trees. Now the mornings deepen; the meadow glints […]

Reaching Out by Daphne Stern

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 by L.E. Wilson

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 […]

AUGUST 1957 by Pam Shack

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 […]