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They called her Ample Eve, a maiden of plentiful beauty; taller, more fully endowed than many girls her age; with soft and rounded flesh, a cherub’s face and hands like Mona Lisa; and with a petite, romantic girl within her who dreamed of being carried off to a castle and loved evermore. It was at [...]
I try, when wearied by this clanging world, to go back to my youth; to be again that child, and think what I thought then. Before the looking glass I stand and look into my eyes; I try to see beyond the years, to see what I saw then; to see it with these sated [...]
Agatha spends her weekdays at the daycare center. She is 3-years-old. Her brother Benjamin spends his weekdays there also. He is 5-years-old. Benjamin keeps an eye on his sister. When one of the other kids runs into her on a bicycle, or she trips and falls when shes running, or she gets sand in her [...]
Each to each Light is because of darkness, the prophet said. They cannot be estranged. Were it all light there would be no darkness, and then there would be no light. If there is nothing old, there is nothing new. If there is no sorrow, there is no happiness; no freedom, no bondage. The threads [...]
Pawnee Promise From the doorway of winter we watch autumn pass; frost is in her hair, her fingers are heavy with cold. We see the tree turn to glass and the earth to wood and hear the cry of a lingering bird against the metal sky. Hushed and huddled, I hold you close as early [...]
Days Of Yore I Remember the milk bottles on the back porch, and the milkman followed by his horse; snow-white vessels of purity and health, out empty at night, in full by early light. We wore camphor on a string around the neck to guard against paralysis, and drank caster oil for other ailments. We [...]
Town Manager Jeffery O’Keefe offers holiday cheer and optimism for America’s – and East Hampton’s – future. First and foremost I would like to wish each of you a safe and warm holiday season! The elections are over and transitions are in the works. Being the optimist I am; I believe the economy is indeed [...]
Felis Catus My neighbor’s cat often sits on our front stoop. She sits on the top step, motionless, only the tip of her tail moving. If anyone approaches up the walk, or she hears the rattle of the doorknob behind her, she takes off like a streak. I like having her sit there. It’s like [...]
Stone Steps From the edge of a narrow and desolate road, the steps go up an incline into trees, a stone at a time. Ascend the steps, push aside the branches, and from the top stone you will see a clearing and vestiges of a house no longer there: the sunken earth, scattered chimney brick [...]
Town Manager Jeffery O’Keefe clarifies his position on an assessment of East Hampton’s commissions and committees in the first of a monthly address he will provide to East Hamptonites. Recently, I had the opportunity to speak to the Rotary club of East Hampton. In addition, to updating the group on what is going on in [...]
