The Beauty in That Photograph...

There is a family photograph that I keep in my room which is an outtake from a Time/Life Magazine article that was done about the famous 1965 clambake on Gardiner's Island. My father was one of the chefs cooking and being profiled in the piece. One of the photographers gave us one of his outtakes that he took of the family, and that image has been with me ever since;


August, 1965
(from a photograph of the family at the
famous Time/Life Magazine clambake)

Can you remember
that time?

In that summer of ‘65?
A youthful inebriety

of food and song
in the sand-soil

of Gardiner’s August.
The plain simplicity

to it all– a clambake.
The bay’s breeze balmy.

Us, (the four of us in full center)
this black and white of us.

Feasting le grand bouffe.
A timeless, caesura –

Life is our mots, the moments
and our memories...