Steve Gerson

"She wondered if he'd get an oil strike, wondered if he'd come back flush, though he never had, wondered if he'd come back at all.  Hoping he wouldn't."

Leslie Grollman

"On weekends, your home verves with friends in and out of bathing suits or gossip. Barbecues, teas and your famous lemon sponge. There is laughter and splashing."

Ace Boggess

"If I added voice to musicians in their choir, / my instrument would whine complaints. / Annexed by the troupe, / I fingered quick approximations of each note."

Andre F. Peltier

"Late lunch on picnic tables / floating above Bar Harbor. / Garlic butter bliss. / My first taste of lobster. / A buck a piece in those days."

Andre F. Peltier

"The initial had been used / to go into debt / three or four times over. / The initial needed to die."