Words Fail

Letter from Away — January 16, 2022

Ice comes and goes in this winter of ups and downs. Life continues.

With apologies to those readers who prefer my stringing of words to my framing of images, this week I ran out of verbal energy. What you see is what you get.

Skyscraper.

Melaphafon sits on last week’s column. Read me, she seems to say.

This week I said goodbye to a reliable companion and quite a few bumper stickers

It is funny, where self-identity lies. It has been almost five years since I finished college. I still miss who I was.

Shlomit Auciello is a writer, photographer, and human ecologist who has lived in Midcoast Maine since 1988. Letter From Away has appeared online and in print, on and off since 1992, and is published here on a weekly basis.