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Montauk # 26

September 23, 2024 – 7:24 am

The North Montauk marsh. Viewed from the 5:19 train Sunset an hour away Evening slipping into night A diesel locomotive From 1999 Hauling ten cars Top speed 80 MPH Over these steel tracks Maybe 50___ Faster than the cars on 27 I don’t see any I’m on the Northside Looking out on Neapaque Bay A […]

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Montauk # 24

September 22, 2024 – 7:27 am

Staring at the sky Seagulls glide on easterly wind Gray clouds follow suit I stand Watching Earthbound___ I’m out in Montauk Thursday thru Sunday staying with my friends, selling jewelry at their store. 771 Montauk Highway. Good to be out of the city. They have a beach shack on Ditch Plains Road. At night I […]

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Long Island RR Crossing

September 5, 2024 – 10:09 am

on a LIRR train from Montauk. Racing through the southern tier of Suffolk county. Cars stopped at train crossings. The blank faces of commuters released from work___ I so wish I was one of them. Accepting my fate of 9 to 5 job monotony. If in a car Home only minutes away Wife or second […]

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The Long Way Home

October 5, 2020 – 1:30 pm

Eastern Airlines served the Boston-NYC-Washington circuit throughout the 1960s as the premier shuttle airline between those three cities. A billboard at the entrance to Logan Airport promoted a $11 commute flight to La Guardia. My paper route paid that amount every week and I dreamed about purchasing a ticket to the Big Apple, however when […]

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WINTER’S TOLL – Montauk

April 1, 2020 – 1:38 am

WINTER’S TOLL The rails run straight to Montauk. The pine forest is wizened by the salt off the ocean Deer dash across the tracks. Day and night. The train runs once an hour. 3600 seconds apart. Still some deer don’t make it. Crows pick clean the bodies and the bones gleam white in the afternoon […]

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