Words in the Shape of Night

Townsend Manor Inn, Room 49, Greenport, New York
A week after staying near the tip of the south fork of Long Island, Nancy and I are staying near the tip of the north fork. Tomorrow, I travel from Orient Point, at the very northern tip of the island to Fischers Island, a far outpost New York State, with a zipcode like those of New England, and nine miles closer to Connecticut than it is to the closest eastern tip of New York.Out at these ends of the earth, where land spills into the sea and...