William J Mullen

Poetry

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  • Conversations With the Dead in the Lowcoutry

    Originally published by Monadnock Underground – monadnockunderground.com “We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came.” – John Fitzgerald Kennedy July 28, 2019 Edisto Island, South Carolina 1:45 A.M. We turned onto SC… →

  • Thanksgiving from the Seventies, Football, and Banking Gold

    I can remember those Thanksgiving days, back in the seventies and early eighties in our neighborhood in Sandy Hook, CT. Yes, that Sandy Hook. in fact, Sandy Hook Elementary was my school. But, that is another tale. It was a time of big cars, hot rods, and rock and roll. It was the time of… →

  • Calamari in the Orange Grove

    Originally run in Monadnock Underground – here   April 1, 2019 Somewhere on a side road in Central Florida It had been raining in Florida. The glades were full, overflowing, green and flowering. It was a hot day for the beginning of April, pushing into the upper eighties. Clouds were rising to great heights making a… →

  • Hutchinson Island, and the Hunt for Wild Sand

          Hutchinson Island, and the Hunt for Wild Sand By William J Mullen March 03, 2018 Somewhere over the Atlantic at 35,000 feet. My wife Kathy and I were staying on the Atlantic coast of south Florida. A nice community called Boynton Beach. We were hosted by family with a lovely villa a… →

  • Captain Rob and the Sleepy Alligator: A Riverine Journey on Florida’s Gulf Coast

      September 4, 2017 9:45 AM High in the hills of New Hampshire Delving back into this story about Captain Rob, The Myakka River, gators,  friends. I can smell the small outboard engine again, thick blue smoke engulfing us as Rob worked the choke. I can smell the river – dank, humid, black water. I… →

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