Annisquam

By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 05, 2023

 

Annisquam

Last couple of years
Research and writing
Scavenging images
Scanning and tweaking
Ancient photos
Brought back to life
Ratcheting up
These past months
Since November
Three glorious weeks
Manship Artists Residency
Lunches at Causeway
Dinner at Azorean
Fruit of the sea
Family and friends
Old and new
Sucking in Gloucester
Taste and smell
Symphonies of gulls
Watching waves
Good Harbor Beach
Once family property
Nugents of Rockport
Beaver Dam Farm
Patrick and Mary
Clan of thirteen
Our grandfather the Flynns
Qarrymen down from Canada
On the run from Black and Tan
The Troubles flung them here
Like Olson’s our Maximus
This polis facing the sea
Annisquam: Pip and Me Coming of Age
Now published at last
Rich with images like fisherman’s stew
Siblings' catch of the day
Fish stories of clams and cod
Abbondanza of our best
Full of flavor
Yet never enough
Post project blues
And end for now but
More like beginning
Oceans are deep and full of fish