Tag Archives: new england

Smash Everything

October 5, 2014 – 5:58 pm

I grew up in New England. People had lived underneath Big Blue Hill or Massachusett for hundreds of years. Behind my house on the South Shore was a small woods. Old mounds rose from the dirt. Tipping pits filled with trash from the 1800s and further back into time. Some Indian. Some colonial. History. We […]

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Snow Now Haiku

February 19, 2014 – 8:25 pm

New England forest in the snow. White going gray. The light going white. Foto by Aleta Wolfe

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Walk Away Rene Don’t Run

February 1, 2014 – 8:37 pm

From a peaceful resting place near the water Rene Ricard was a youth born to run Run to Boston in 1964 to be wild It was a good time to be young Walk Away Rene Don’t Run Down to New York Down to be someone Down with Warhol Down with the scene Walk Away Rene […]

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Hail To Da Chief

May 21, 2013 – 8:37 pm

Hail storms are rare in the Northeast, but this afternoon my comrade Eric Bad Boy experienced hail driving from Albany to the Berkshires. “I thought we going to get hit by a tornado. What’s it like in New York?” “Sunny and humid.” I was fighting traffic across the Manhattan Bridge. There wasn’t a cloud in […]

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Neither Snow Nor Sleet

February 9, 2013 – 4:21 pm

[1] While the United States Postal Service has no official creed or motto the words ‘Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.’ are carved into Manhattan’s James Farley Post Office. According to Wikipedia the phrase was derived from a Herodutus translation […]

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