Lonely in the universe

Tideline in North Truro

Photo by Hqfrancis

….this is just one sea

on one beach on one

planet in one

solar system in one

galaxy. After that

the scale increases, so

this not the last word,

and nothing else is talking back.

It’s a lonely situation.’’

— From The Sea Grinds Things Up,’’ by Alan Dugan (1923-2003), a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. He lived in Truro, on Outer Cape Cod. The town, as with Provincetown, just to the north, has long drawn artists of various kinds, along with other exotic tribes, such as New York City psychoanalysts.