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- Notes, as needed
- Chinatown;...In American history; as California's San Francisco was settled in the Gold Rush; sailing vessels had seamen "shanghaied" or kidnapped to work their vessels to China; sometimes via the brothels and slaoons adjacent the wharfs and San Francisco's Barbary coast. [They had deserted ships to find gold; and ships could not make sail!]
- Summer ... In some East Coast USA public beaches, the bathers wear tags for the summer season; on their bathing suits.
- "A Knotty Little Limerick"; references the wood panelling in New England; styled "knotty pine"; for its many black stained knots; and the word "tine", liberally used, references vertical straight panels; as the "tines" of a fork.
- Sonnet To the Tropical Beauty";... "Triton" poetically references the calling horn, a shell often; as well as the labyrinthine Pacific crustacean; which the author uses to symbolize the call of the Sea God Kanoloa, also Poseidon, Neptune.
"rood" is an old English & French word; referencing the common people;
"brother" is used in the social sense of Hawaiian discourse, and no incest is implied necessarily; save one infers the concubinal marriages of the "alii", or kings;
mauka is the Hawaiian word for mountains; inlans; referencing here the source of the breeze; [nb the poet originally forgot the correct word ... its mauka, not makai; so he changed the word and omitted 'from' to keep the meter.] ... Mahalo, bruddahs & sistahs; at the Hawaiian on line dictionary.
lanai is the Hawaiian word for an external area; sometimes used for sleeping; adjoining Polynesian lodgings;
tapi is the Polynesian word for the bark cloth of the Pacific Islands;
lei is the Hawaiian word for the flower chain worn around the neck; here of ginger flowers;
melee is a Hawaiian word, used here as if hurried; sometimes in confusion or panic against discovery;
Pelee is the primal female Hawaiian deity ... source of good and safekeeping ... including volcanoes & tsunami; and a Hawaiian woman's feminine inspiration.
- "Sonnet To Palladio" is a classical Italian rhyme pattern, sonnet in iambic pentameter ... pondering his windows, architecture and privacy.
- "Sonnet To Queen Anne's Lace" ...Daucus carotta ... tributes the native American wild carrot; with its lacy summer bloom; named for Queen Anne of Great Britain.
- Epigrams ... often mirthy and macabre; adorned early headstones; still do in places; and are famous as witty; pithy verse; of a short nature.
- "Sonnet to Many Flavors" .... "Johnson's", known to Americans as the Howard Johnson's Restaurant chain; which stared in ice cream with 29 flavors.
- "The Grand Old Game" ... Written by Scott M Connolly during the World Series Baseball Games at LiPo's Bar on Grant Ave in San Francisco, Ca in 1991. [Written & stored in handprint on the back of a bar anniversary invitation, pink paper red type; paper taken with other personalty in April 1995 from his Massachusetts home; by an impersonator, who eloped with his beach and sports attire; for San Francisco, and Hawaii & a woman... [took a still active pager also ...(808)577-4563; last registered to an address near Honolulu's Salt Lake area
If you see or find it, send me the verses..... as I rewrote them from memory, and had to re-construct the center stanza.
- "Morrels" ... 'cep' is the anglo/french term for the round hemisphere capped mushroom.
- Unless specifically noted; Scott M. Connolly ...SCOTTMCON ... is the sole author of all these works; all rights reserved. {A thanks to his English teachers; thoguhout his life who gave him a constant appreciation of poetry & good prose.)
- "Fenway Park Forever" ... was written by Scott M. Connolly, in Atlanta, Ga.; he had seen Ted Williams play in 1958; and has been there several times. The Red Sox bizarrely intend to chop the outfield and right field grand stands away; leave part of the "green monster", and make a ceremonial site of old Fenway. The new stadium's land would evidently come from a swap of Fenway's right field? An earlier Boston Globe article had the new stadium eating away right field; most of the outfield; and the right grand stands ... old Fenway could not be used for a full regulation game ... its outfield truncated! ... The "Babe" Ruth, started in Boston in the '20's as a pitcher!
- "Key West" and "The Tropics" were written during a recent sojourn to Key West, 8/6/99 ... and "The Tropics" was edited 24.8.99; to correct a mistype as to the Tropics of Cancer & Capricorn & their northern or southern climes.
- "On the Bard's Birthday" written last April 2000; for the occasion of and on the day of William Shakespeare's Birthday.
- All poetry, prose and verse on this SCOTTMCON site are written by Scott M. Conolly; unless otherwise noted; in explicit credit. All Rights Reserved. Personal use copies are encouraged; translations may be had by AltaVista Babelfish ... no commercial reproduction or use without the permission of Scott M. Connolly - do not use prior e-mail addresses - securest one is scottagin@webtv.net Prior e-mail address scottmcon@yahoo.com is no longer mine.
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