In The Dark Curfew'd Streets - Long Beach, Long Island in the Aftermath...

By Helen Morrissey Rizzuto

Speaking out of the nightmare of the evening of October 29, 2012, the poet traces the trajectory of Super-storm Sandy's impact on a community living on a stretch of barrier beach, on the south shore of Long Island. The book opens as the storm makes landfall and 'drowns' everything in its path. The poems then proceed to document the days, weeks and months that follow - the shock, the hopelessness, the coming to terms and finally, the realization that life as the community had known it, was gone.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Dec 4, 2013
• ISBN: 9781483514727

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in the dark curfew’d streets

Long Beach, Long Island

in the aftermath . . .

Helen Morrissey Rizzuto

© Copyright by Helen Morrissey Rizzuto, 2013.

ISBN 978-0-615-86208-8 (print)

Contents

Dedication

Epigraph

Note From the Author

THE COMING

THE FIRST DAYS

THE COMING OF WINTER

REVENANTS

STASIS

INTERREGNUM

KNOWING THAT HELP IS NOT COMING

ANOTHER PIONEER

THE GIFT

EPILOGUE

About the Author

DEDICATED TO

my son who sacrificed all that he holds dearest

in order to bring warmth and hope to so many of us

who will never be able to repay him

my daughter-in-law and grandson

who took us in and kept us warm

and my daughter and her partner

who kept us connected to that other world

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