AT 62: Spectacle Island, Boston Harbor by Doug Holder
AT 62: Spectacle Island, Boston Harbor It is time to sit on an island far away enough from your life to look at it. It is time to notice the slender waves of the grass. It is time for your worn shoes on the warm gravel. You shuffle like a vaudevillian. You let the wind slap you affectionately with fragrant ocean air. You are no longer a second-rate pugilist boxing your way into a corner. And the flies that buzz your pale, spindly limbs with their blood lust-- you finally understand they do what they must. Doug Holder is the founder of the Ibbetson Street Press. Holder has been published in a wide variety of journals and newspapers like: the Boston Globe, The Somerville Times, Bay State Banner, Rattle, Cafe Review, Constellations, Boston Literary Magazine. etc.. He has a new poetry collection coming out Last Night at the Wursthaus ( Grey Sparrow Press). He teaches at E...