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Cormorants are not ninja loons.
Seasonal workers start showing exhaustion
A murder of crows are camping at the end of the driveway. I search the ditches for trash or a carcass, but I can’t find what they’re after. Falcons drift over the roadway, and the Island Explorer buses carry more bicycles than I thought. Couples nap under trees in Agamont Park, while toddlers shriek at […]
Good morning, Bar Harbor.
Less bird-quarrel during heavy rains
Imagine all the people sharing all the world.
Two brothers form a pyramid out of damp sand, while toddlers poke holes in the side and call them windows. Once the peak is finished, the young ones leave to swagger in the tide, and the oldest stays to change the sculpture’s shape into a man’s head. Seaweed becomes long hair. The sand man resembles […]
Look out
A woman, maybe in her late twenties, sits on the rock farthest to the left and stares out over the rolling, verdant landscape. She may be thinking about how not having money is limiting, or how love can also be lonely, or whether she should be what she’s chosen. Perhaps she just hiked up this mountain […]
It’s a whole different world down low.
I get sad, angry, and confused sometimes. It helps to look at my surroundings from ground level. What bothers me becomes less bothersome as I watch micro-processes play out in tiny acts. A shifting in sand grains, the busyness of small bugs in dense sod, the buzz of pollination, and the invisible decay of last […]
I wore the wrong shoes
Orange you glad the sun sets so marvelous?
I’m not the only one impressed by the sun’s daily farewell blaze. Children point the sky out to their father, delighted in its pink and orange coats of paint. “Look! Look at it – the colorful sky.” Thin clouds hold their water and the stars will be out soon. Constellations will emerge as the sky’s […]