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Those Aren’t Dolphins
Everybody’s talking about sea smoke
Temperamental ocean
Snow comes and leaves
Trees balance icy snow on their branches, and lean over the road like they’re expecting to fall and hope to halve the distance. When the setting sun’s orange light hits the ice coating on a twiggy branch, glowing crowns float above the ground, out of place and glorious. The snow comes and leaves a few […]
The Ocean’s Lavender Hour
Yesterday morning a young male deer yanked apples off a tree with an eager mouth. His antlers were as tall as a hand. This morning the sun bounced off clean snow into every window of the house. Now, dimming light rests on the small waves coming into shore. It is the ocean’s lavender hour. Evergreen […]
One moment, and it contains war, youth, and marriage
Good morning, Bar Harbor.
Sand Beach swimmers anticipate wave
On Mount Desert Island, there’s a name for every place
I hail from the Saint John Valley River region myself, but now I’m on Mount Desert Island, Maine’s biggest island. Prior to moving here, I’d visited a handful of times, and had somehow left with only the knowledge that Bar Harbor was a beautiful town, that Cadillac Mountain summit was the height of my […]