Tag Archives: new england

Laying On A Suburban Lawn – New England

March 12, 2025 – 12:05 pm

Noon West of Boston and 128 Mid-March Noon Lying on my sister Pam’s sloping lawn Under the Winter sun The grass awaiting the Spring to green__ Beyond the lawn A steep descent into a gully An Eastern pine rises from below My eyeball estimate Over a hundred feet in the air Over two hundred years […]

By Peter | Posted in family, New England, Poetry | Also tagged | Comments (0)

A Bus To Boston

March 10, 2025 – 7:11 pm

March 9 Daylights Saving ends Two weeks short of the equinox Yesterday sunrise at 6 Today 7 The Flex Bus departure at 8 Pack my bag go taxi__ 7:41 The Bowery and Canal The old Fung Wah stop Departure on time Cross the East River I know this route well Chinatown to Chinatown 1962 to […]

By Peter | Posted in New England, Poetry | Also tagged , , | Comments (0)

December 13, 1978 – East Village – Journal

February 26, 2024 – 3:47 pm

My first childhood on Falmouth Foresides And then the South Shore of Boston. In 1976 I left for good. New York bound, Two years now Yet I miss New England The White Mountains The Maine Coast Old Orchard Beach, Portland’s Eastern Promenade The view on Mount Washington far to the west The two old schooners […]

By Peter | Posted in journal, maine, New England, photos, Poetry | Also tagged , , , | Comments (0)

HORSENECK BEACH by Peter Nolan Smith

August 10, 2023 – 8:05 am

Written May 17 1994 The morning after my senior prom in 1970 I drove my date down to Horseneck Beach in my older brother’s VW Beetle. The graduating class of my all-boys parochial high school were having a beer bash in the dunes. We crossed the bridge over the Westport River at noon. After parking […]

By Peter | Posted in 70s, boston, semi-fiction, youth | Also tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Dunwich Horror – Wilbraham – Free Poetry – October 2022

December 6, 2022 – 2:37 pm

THE DUNWICH HORROR was published in 1929 by Weird Tales. Three years earlier HP Lovecraft had stayed in Wilbraham east of Springfield, Mass. The lost farmhouses scattered on the low mountains exuded a foreboding gloom inspired this tale, especially the 18th Century Whateley Farmhouse on Beebe Road. THE DUNWICH HORROR recounts the fictional life of […]

By Peter | Posted in myth, New England | Also tagged , , | Comments (0)