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Tides Of The East River – June 2023

June 2, 2024 – 10:02 am

June 20, 2023 Dawn on the East River Grey I touch the window A seventh-floor hospital room Glass warm to my palm The summer solstice No blue A clouded sky A pale white sun 93 million miles away Glowing Gray The East River flows fast south Four knots with the flush Of Long Island Sound […]

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Oysters On The Hudson

June 1, 2024 – 9:01 am

Every summer the Lenape traveled with the seaward tide to harvest the oysters from the Muhheakantuck or the River that flows both ways. The middens of discard shells created large mounds and the Dutch named a path Pearl Street for the luminous nacres. PSD the name Manhattan means “place of inebriation. Judy Nylon wrote The […]

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