Thousands in the streets
March against injustice without retreat
To change the status quo
Agitate, disrupt and provoke

A few stalks of asparagus appear in my overgrown West Tisbury vegetable garden each year.

My neighbor up Lambert’s Cove Road texted me the other afternoon: “I need your help!”

When I was a boy

the Pagoda Tree

reached the sky

Whenever I see U.S. census takers roaming the streets of my town to get an inventory of its denizens, I’m reminded of the 1980 census.

It took a few weeks, but I can no longer watch the news of the country I no longer live in.