Monthly Archives: October 2012

Out on the black lake alone in the Whaler, the wind picks up. Thank God I brought a flashlight to color the buoys, tell black from red. My spray-wet chart curls up into cold uselessness. Black shadows of islands creep … Continue reading →

A vast expanse of sky dwarfs the land as bright restless clouds drift out to sea. In the next room Allen toys with wires. Jane’s off to market. Brown weeds wag their fingers in the bay wind. The septic’s grown … Continue reading →

Communion in mind, I drove right past the golf course. Where were all the carts?

During my third trimester the Berlin Airlift ended after 278,926 dogged sorties. Hundreds of thousands of cheering West Germans greeted the first land convoy in mid-gestation. And coal arrived every 36 seconds in the “Easter Parade” of 1949, as the … Continue reading →