by Nick Tabone | Apr 26, 2021 | Non-fiction
It was that dark hour just before the dawn when I came out on deck for tie-up in Green Bay, Wisconsin. I took my position on the port quarter, ready to call spots for the captain should he need them. My tea steamed in its travel mug. Up...
by Nick Tabone | Apr 24, 2021 | Poetry
A pastiche of John Betjamin’s ‘The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel’ He sips on a Tim Hortons steeped teaand stares at the gulag grey sky,through the jaundice lace of the curtainsand the rims of his bloodshot eyes. To the left and before him is Bay...
by Nick Tabone | Apr 15, 2021 | Non-fiction
Trade on the Great Lakes slows to a trickle for a couple of months each year as the St. Lawrence seaway and the Welland Canal close for maintenance and the various fleets which operate in the region lay their ships up for work of their own...
by Nick Tabone | Apr 2, 2021 | Poetry
Never one for goodbyeshe slips away before suns first light. The getaway, a taxicabon black roads varnished with dew. A thief in the night, his belongings in the boot and a head full of jewels and sadness.
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