Amagansett

Amagansett

Mark Mills

For Caroline, Gus and Rosie;

and to the memory of

John N. Cole (1923-2003)

I stand as on some mighty eagle’s beak,

Eastward the sea absorbing, viewing, (nothing but sea and sky,)

The tossing waves, the foam, the ships in the distance,

The wild unrest, the snowy, curling caps—that inbound urge and urge of waves,

Seeking the shores forever.

From Montauk Point

WALT WHITMAN

Table of Contents

Cover Page

Title Page

Dedication

Epigraph

July 1947

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Thirteen

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Sixteen

Seventeen

Eighteen

Nineteen

Twenty

Twenty-One

Twenty-Two

Twenty-Three

Twenty-Four

Twenty-Five