Search
coast calendar
Coast Calendar
Comes in snow flurries and biting blows. The new mound in the graveyard is covered over deep, as Grandpa's turkey bones said it would be.
December 1947
- Keywords
- robert p. tristram coffin,
- coast calendar,
- winter
Coast Calendar
Begins with low clouds, and it seems the clouds stretch off to forever. Grandma sees a winding sheet in her evening candle, and is troubled.
November 1947
- Keywords
- robert p. tristram coffin,
- coast calendar,
- fall
Coast Calendar
Comes in fresh gales and leaves miles high in the sky.
October 1947
- Keywords
- robert p. tristram coffin,
- coast calendar,
- fall
Coast Calendar
Comes in a morning all opals and turquoises and dewdrops strung like pearls on the Queen Anne's lace.
September 1947
- Keywords
- robert p. tristram coffin,
- coast calendar
Coast Calendar
Comes in fogs. Lost Atlantis comes unmoored on the Banks, sweeps in, and erases all land.
August 1947
- Keywords
- robert p. tristram coffin,
- coast calendar,
- summer
Coast Calendar
Comes in high thunderheads. Leo is the sign, and he growls through the night.
July 1947
- Keywords
- robert p. tristram coffin,
- coast calendar,
- summer
Coast Calendar
Comes in high-run tides in the bays and high tides of daisies.
June 1947
- Keywords
- robert p. tristram coffin,
- coast calendar,
- summer
Coast Calendar
Comes in west winds and a sky snowing lambs. The empty barn echoes, but the bay bobs with boats.
May 1947
- Keywords
- robert p. tristram coffin,
- coast calendar,
- spring
Coast Calendar
The adder casts his skin and leaves it like a curl of spring sky on the hot ledge; and the farmer sloughs off his thick flannels.
April 1947
- Keywords
- robert p. tristram coffin,
- coast calendar,
- spring
Pinterest
