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Anthony Michael Majahad: Tony is an environmental chemist. He and his wife, Dorry, moved from Cambridge to Winthrop. Mentors have been Jean Pedrick, Nina Nyhart, William Corbett, and Carol Dine; currently Susan Donnelly. Poems have appeared in Marblehead Magazine, Suffolk University Venture, Bagel Bard Anthologies #6 and #7 and MSPS’s Waterfront CREW Chapter Anthologies. He published online via North Shore Poetry Forum, Ocean Blue and Muddy River.

Sylvia Plath on Point Shirley, Winthrop, Massachusetts

The violent ocean outside Grandmother’s beach-locked house

What hollowing demons travel with this storm?

Such a smart mind you have, Sylvia.

The thrill of the 1938 hurricane:

Father’s study windows bulging inward—

On my eighth birthday, I’ll send my latest poem

to the Boston Globe; they’ll appreciate it.

telephone poles snapped at the base—

Oh Daddy, teach me more of your yellow and brown bumblebees;

dead shark basking in Grandmother’s

soaked gardenia garden—

Daddy, perhaps could cut back on your strict Nazi discipline.

Oh Daddy, why did that disease take you from me so soon?

Maybe someday

I’ll become famous,

marry an Englishman;

flirt with death, twice,

leave my children behind

as you, Daddy, did to me

— Anthony Michael Majahad

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