Oct
15
The Light on Star Island
Montauk Yacht Club Resort and Marina, Room 124, Star Island, Montauk, New York
I arrived here today, on Star Island, in Lake Montauk, itself a bay almost completely separated from
the Long Island Sound (and, thus, the Atlantic Ocean), all of it within Montauk, New York, when the sun floated in the clearest blue sky at just such an angle as to cause the light to cast itself upon the surface of everything around me with a pure clarity.
My bed for the night is a few yards from the edge of the lake, so I walked through the sunlight, over miles of wooden piers, my shoes clacking on the boards, my eyes watching for everything: grass being mowed; cormorants, gulls, and crows; yachts.
I arrived here today, on Star Island, in Lake Montauk, itself a bay almost completely separated from
the Long Island Sound (and, thus, the Atlantic Ocean), all of it within Montauk, New York, when the sun floated in the clearest blue sky at just such an angle as to cause the light to cast itself upon the surface of everything around me with a pure clarity.
My bed for the night is a few yards from the edge of the lake, so I walked through the sunlight, over miles of wooden piers, my shoes clacking on the boards, my eyes watching for everything: grass being mowed; cormorants, gulls, and crows; yachts.
