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Staten Island Fog – Journal May 9, 1978

January 31, 2025 – 1:25 am

From May 9, 1978 Journal On the Staten Island Ferry The first time I’ve left Manhattan Since going to Boston On Christmas___ 11 AM I can’t see anything of Manhattan The fog furls over the ferry’s wake Across the Inner Harbor The rank smell of the sea Beyond the Verrazano Bridge. The gray water darker […]

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THE DEATH OF ME by Peter Nolan Smith

November 28, 2012 – 10:10 am

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 […]

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