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Staten Island Fog – Journal 1978

From May 9, 1978 Journal On the Staten Island Ferry The first time I’ve left Manhattan Since Boston. I can’t see anything of Manhattan. The fog follows the ferry’s wake. The harbor air The gray sea dark as the gray air. The world a maze of opaque sameness. The ferry approaches St. George. The passengers […]

THE DEATH OF ME by Peter Nolan Smith

Last December I attended the opening of the “Dream’ exhibition at Luxembourg’s Mudam Museum. Madame l’Ambassador bailed from the event early for a formal dinner with diplomats. I was not invited for supper. “It’s a diplomatic thingee.” Madame l’Ambassador explained, as we walked through a thickening fog to the waiting Jaguar. “I understand.” A writer-in-residence […]