Archive for the ‘Friends’ Category
At the end of a day
We have a few trees in the courtyard behind our apartment. Two silver maples and a Chinese elm. Though they are luscious during the summer, they also carry for me the association of seeing them next to the highway on the rare occasions I would leave Manhattan by car many years ago. There—it seemed always […]
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Tags: Chinese-elm, towhee
Perfect
“That’s what I miss,” my friend at work said a couple weeks ago. I recalled this while driving west on the Mass Pike toward I-84 South. “What’s that?” I had asked, noticing he was reminiscing in a slightly uncharacteristic way. He was not one to romanticize the past, as I do in almost every […]
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wind-swept hair
Two women. One was like a pillar, her lean, erect frame topped with a bun of dyed-by-sun blond hair arranged so that the wind from riding the ferry across the bay wouldn’t blow it free. It was steadied and secure. Her lips were tightly set, and her mouth and cheeks showed no creases. Her […]
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“Such a river”
It sounded almost like a wedding march and, in a sense, it was. The organ in church this past Sunday at Point O’ Woods piped the first notes of “Glorious things of thee are spoken,” and in your mind you could see a bride walking down the aisle, smiling, her life-mate before her, beaming back. […]
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My high school, Trinity, on West 91st Street, didn’t have a football team, but we did offer fencing. Litigious parents made sure that our mascot, The Trinity Tiger, never appeared next to a gridiron after about 1972, but come 1976 or so these same parents – effete and urbane – made sure their kids participated […]
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