Stonecutter’s Almanac: May Nor’easter

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The wind shifted.
This little cove is protected, but I can see whitecaps further out to sea.

Weather was the talk at the gas station and the hardware store this morning.
“A Nor’easter on Memorial Day Weekend?”
“I heard they might get snow up north.”

The tops of spruce trees are swaying.
Birds are chattering.
Low clouds blow fast from left to right across my field of vision.
A bank of gray clouds on the horizon moves slowly in.

Electricians fine-tune a chandelier.
Carpenters hang doors.
New furniture is being unloaded.

I scratched my neck and found a tick.
Now I feel them everywhere.

I hit old granite with a chisel, again and again, changing its shape to fit the wall.

Some of the dirt this wall will retain just collapsed.
I’ll have to dig it out after lunch.

The wind and rain will be here tonight.
No work tomorrow.