Tag Archives: fishing

Skipping Stones

Posted on July 23, 2018 by soitgoes1984

I last time I had skipped a stone across the water I was seventeen it was the waning weeks before my senior year of high school on a hot summer evening after a hard days work on the farm still … Continue reading →

Posted in 9/11, america, american dream, Baghdad, Iraq, music, poem, Poetry, summer, time, Uncategorized, war, writing | Tagged 9/11, America, Baghdad, Beer, college, farming, fishing, iraq, poem, poetry, war, youth | Comments Off

Starfish

Posted on January 8, 2018 by soitgoes1984

We are the kid from that story tossing stranded starfish back into the ocean making a difference, one at a time. We are that kid as an adult ignoring endless miles of beached whales and sea turtles trapped in … Continue reading →

Posted in capitalism, climate, climate change, earth, environment, poem, Poetry, trash, Uncategorized, water, writing | Tagged Atlantic, capitalism, climate change, death, fishing, garbage, greed, hawaii, ignorance, life, ocean, Pacific, plastic, poem, poetry, pollution, sea turtles, starfish, stories, trash, whales | Comments Off

Kalaupapa

Posted on August 13, 2017 by soitgoes1984

how many feet have walked along this trail for years and years and years before hiking shoes and boots how many mules have stepped on these stones carying the weight of history how many tears have fallen remains a mystery but … Continue reading →

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Heart Of An Octopus

Posted on July 14, 2016 by soitgoes1984

Its body was still pulsating the ink still traveling just beneath the slimy surface with tenticles still dripping and salt water dropping into the sand below through cracks in the weathered picnic table unable to say no, I held out my … Continue reading →

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May 22, 2006

Posted on May 7, 2016 by soitgoes1984

Ten years have flown by since the American Dream died when he breathed his last breath on that goddamned hospital bed and all I could do was scream and shout from my lungs top the illusion was over the bubble … Continue reading →

Posted in addiction, alcohol, american dream, death, dreams, fishing, god, grandfather, Massachusetts, memories, New England, poem, Poetry, religion, shad, tears, Uncategorized, water, working class | Tagged addiction, american dream, death, family, fishing, grandfather, grandparents, love, poem, poetry, roofing, shad | Comments Off

Cheap Box Wine And Mount Caramulo Moonshine

Posted on September 4, 2015 by soitgoes1984

fire up the grill timid, still-green cord wood from fallen late-winter pine aided by its own cones, dry from months of sun baking wander behind the shed find kindling, scrap barn boards from years gone by, dry enough to burn … Continue reading →

Posted in aguadiente, cats, chocolate, dogs, fire, fish, fishing, poem, Poetry, portugal, wine | Tagged aguardiente, cats, chicolate, dogs, fire, fish, fishing, poem, poetry, Portugal, wine | Comments Off

April 21, 2006: The day Poppy fell off a roof for the last time

Posted on January 12, 2014 by soitgoes1984

written April 21, 2013 seven years ago today I was living in Portland, Maine, on my way home from work when I got the news that, for the second time in four years, my grandfather had fallen off a roof. … Continue reading →

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