Howard Sage's Lost—or Found? at Sea
photo by The Independent Howard Sage’s poetry and prose has been published in Hawaii Pacific Review , Poetry Quarterly , and recently in Dissident Voice . He has contributed several pieces to The New York Times Metropolitan Diary column. He received first prize in the Greenburgh, New York annual poetry competition. His interview with Ralph Ellison is part of the Ellison papers. He hitchhiked from Dublin to Galway, Ireland. I’m Merle—you don’t need to know my so-called “last” or family name. All you need to know is that I’ve had more than enough of sea vistas and lobster traps. And why not? I’ve ensconced myself here for umpteen years, ok, nine of them, and I will leave tomorrow, so I...