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Pattie McCarthy
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Philly poet

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#DOOP
October 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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A wooded path downhill to the ocean, with 2 teens at the bottom, where there is a ledge. It’s sunny in the photo, which was taken in midcoast Maine
July 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Our Emmett graduates from the fire academy tonight! We are so proud of him. I love their class photo, which is from their Final Burn 🔥
Congratulations, Emmett!
Fire academy students & instructors in full turnout gear stand outside a building with lots of smoke damage visible with a sign that reads “structural fire building”
May 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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All spring break in a day
My 3 teens walk on a ridge on the beach against a blue sunny sky A jetty covered in barnacles & seaweed. It’s beautiful & crumbly Dune fence on a sunny beach My 3 teens smiling on the beach beside a sign that says : submerged DANGER jetty
March 4, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Happy happiest FOURTEENTH birthday to Fionnuala, the whole Foodah, saint Fionnbharr Flood! We love you & are so very proud of you!!! 💙💚🌊🦞⚽️🦉💫☀️🎂🥳
4 photos of my 14yo daughter Fionnuala: on a snowy beach in Maine; playing soccer, about to put a cross in; on a sea cliff on Monhegan, Maine; smiling by the water in summer Photo of Fionn at 1 week old, eyes wide
February 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Happy happiest SIXTEENTH birthday to our Asher! An absolute legend 🦊💙🧤💫🥳 have a wonderful day, Asherbaby!
4 photos of my 16yo son Asher: on a seacliff, Monhegan, Maine; smiling & reclining in the sun; goalkeeping; in a jersey, smiling & looking into the camera Asher in an ergo carrier being held by me in 2009, at about 10 months old. We both wear winter hats
January 28, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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❄️ 🌊🌲
Sunshine through the woods in Maine My spouse makes a snow angel on a large frozen pond in Maine My teen daughter on a frozen pond in sunshine in Maine 4 people & 2 dogs on a pebbly beach with some snow on it, mid-tide, going out. Maine
December 28, 2024 at 6:18 PM
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sending you love & light on the solstice— & all best wishes for you & yours in the festive season—

please accept this image in lieu of a paper card 💙🌊❄️🦞💫🎄🦊💚✨
A holiday card wishing you a wonderful holiday & happy new year, with photos of 3 teens. One photo of them smiling on a pebbly beach in Maine & the other of them on the town wharf with a Xmas tree made of lobster trap buoys.
December 21, 2024 at 12:20 PM
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Not sure about the morality of this philosophy lol but I’ll take it
Image of Jose Mourinho saying ‘I am Jose Mourinho’
December 12, 2024 at 2:40 AM
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Our Emmett is 18yo today! So proud of him! Plus he’s a delight! Happy bday, baby Em! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥
3 photos of my oldest son, who is 18 today. 1 in full firefighter turnout gear. 1 in a baseball cap on the beach in Maine. 1 where he is smiling in his FD dress uniform, in the window of a ladder truck. Photo of my oldest son Emmett on the day he was born, 18 years ago today. He’s in a little hospital hat & blanket, sleeping
December 6, 2024 at 2:30 PM
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Soft forest walk to the beach today
November 28, 2024 at 1:41 AM
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Away for the week. Awake before dawn again today, but looking at the sea
View out the window at dawn of the sea in Maine. Sky just getting color & light. Lobster boats in the cove. A little house at the water.
November 24, 2024 at 4:54 PM
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She’s here! extraordinary tides from Omnidawn — with “Fog (Belfast)” on the cover by Kate Kern Mundie— she’s here she’s here! 🌊🪸💙
October 5, 2023 at 6:03 PM
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Cole Swensen, from “Paintings of Possible Hands” (which is from The Book of 100 Hands)
September 30, 2023 at 2:00 PM
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New poem from me in the new york review of books fall issue — pretty dreamy! — thanks to Jana Prikryl! 🌊🌊🌊

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/09/21/neap-tide-autumn-pattie-mccarthy/
August 31, 2023 at 5:27 PM