Gloucester as Polis

By: Charles Giliano - Nov 13, 2023

Morning view of Long Beach

Annisquam sunset last summer.

Astrid packed and ready to go.

Pip at the podium during our book lunch.

Raced to Causeway last night before closing.

Astrid had swordfish tips.

The bounteous mussels.

We saved twin lobsters for another time.

Tonight cataplana at Azorean with Jay and Susan.

Drawing the curtain our room by the sea.

Hearty souls taking a morning dip.

When the bridge is up.

Schooners sailed from Gloucester to the Grand Banks

Hopper's view of Gloucester.

Hartley painted in Dogtown.

Gloucester as Polis

Back in Gloucester
November  13
As we were last year
Our Manship Residency
Tourists long gone
Charles Olson's Polis
Grand Cape Ann
Tip of a continent
Jutting out to sea
The cold Atlantic
Schooners set sail
The Grand Banks
Stocked with fish
When Cod was God
Now bedeviled
Back home where
My Nugent ancestors
Tilled the land
Beaver Dam Farm
Edge of Dogtown
Heirs swindled
Such a sad tale
Of ancestral heritage
Ashes and dust
Here to see
Sister, family and cousins
Sip tea with artists
Gorge on bounty
Of the  sea
Last night
Slipped in late
Causeway near empty
Eggparm and swordfish
Tonight cataplana
Jay and Susan
Fabulous Azorean
This morning
Coffee and donuts
Threw back the curtain
Glorious day
View of Long Beach
Two hearty souls
In the watah
Bittah cold
So starts a
Week of advenchas
Me and Pip
Shootin' hoops
Down by the school yad
While Astrid
Walks the beach
Suckin up fresh
Salt air we
Just don't get
In the Berkshires