Category Archives: sea

Montauk # 29

October 8, 2024 – 9:48 am

Autumn morning Again Ditch Plains Off-shore easterly Surfers riding a chest-high swell Seagulls skating the crest A bright sun No sunglasses Squint Richie Boy thinking Work or surf___ A fishing boat chugging to harbor At least twenty aged surf bums On the break___ We On the beach Richie Boy A friend for almost fifty years […]

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Montauk # 27

September 27, 2024 – 10:16 pm

An Autumn Afternoon Sitting on a bench A simple pleasure Watching seagulls Not gliding No wind Wings beating Away from the Atlantic Montauk Lake bound Free As am I An old hippie hobo Lost on the wind___ According to the Easthampton Star between the Shinnecock Inlet and Montauk Point, there’s a chance to see the […]

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Smooth Sand

September 11, 2024 – 6:33 pm

Thousands of feet pummel the beach. At the edge of the sea Only mine Erased by the waves Smooth sand.

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Thousands of Feet Sand

September 11, 2024 – 1:38 pm

Thousands of feet pummel the beach. At the edge of the sea Only mine Erased by the waves Smooth sand.

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A FINE DAY FOR SAILING by Peter Nolan Smith

August 30, 2024 – 11:17 am

My grandmother hailed from County Mayo in Ireland. Her last name was Walsh. At the age of fourteen Nana traveled to Boston by ship. Most of the other passengers were cattle. “It was an awful crossing. Storms most of the way. We sailed in the Year of the Crow,” she told her grandchildren in her […]

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