Taken for Granite

Ledgendary Gloucester

By: Charles Giuliano - May 06, 2017

Taken for Granite

Ice age glaciers
Strafed and ravaged
Leaving giant boulders
Like Whale’s Jaw
Deep in Dogtown
Twenty minute walk
From Gabrielle’s house
So she said during
A feisty studio visit
Island of granite
Gloucester is ledgendary
On ancestral land
Old Nugent Farms
Townhouses nestled
Between boulders
Formerly scruffy pastures
Where Aunt Caddy
Picked blueberries
Pies sold to
Homes and hotels
Week of exploring
Along the shore
Magnificent mansions
Craggy Bass Rocks
Waves crashing
Battered by storms
Walking deserted
Good Harbor Beach
Too early for bathers
Navigating Wheeler’s Point
On Squam River
Where Mom played
Dense and overbuilt
Like Norwood Heights
Where Pip lives
Growing up absurd
In posh Annisquam
Lunch with cousin Kevin
Quite the rake
At Beauport in The Fort
Grand new hotel
Where Sicilian sailors lived
Priced out of town
Dead like the fish
Ever less ethnic
City gentrified
Rained cats and dogs
Our last night
Overlooking the cove
Dark and windy
While the kids
Room next to us
Partied till dawn
High as kites on
Sea and surf
Transfusions of saltwater
Wet and wild
Lingering memories
Brought home to the
Berkshires where
We dream of oceans
Ghosts of schooners
Crashed memories on craggy
Norman’s Woe