15 September 2026 (new moon)

new moon

lobster boats with women’s names

face into the tide

10 October 2022 (neon buoys)

neon buoys . . .

a small pod of porpoises

crosses the ferry’s wake

18 March 2022 (climbing)

climbing the cliff trail

the exhaust

of a lobster boat

3 December 2021 (Christmas by the Sea)

harbor town holiday

Santa arrives

by lobster boat

1 October 2021 (Trap Day)

gull light

a boat piled with lobster traps

chugs out of the harbor

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co-written with Bryan Pfeiffer. Today is Trap Day on Monhegan Island, the first day of the lobster-fishing season here. They will fish until the first week of June.

23 September 2021 (rope)

lobster moon

new coils of rope fill

half the stacked traps

28 June 2021 (trap yard)

off-season trap yard

piles of coiled rope entangled

with knotweed