Sunday, February 08, 2004

Barrington

Land in the rough
By design and by tradition.
A sense of place.

Stone wall and lake and meadow
Wood and bramble
Cloud of dust off a dirt road.
The crack of a branch underfoot.

Woodpeckers, turkeys,
Deer, moose, and bear,
Beaver and fox,
In the wood and marsh.

Loon and mallard
Kingbird and heron by the water.

Fiddleheads, lady slippers,
Canada mayflowers, starflowers,
Salamanders,
Ants, lots of ants
In the yard and by my house.


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edited April 11, 2015
Barrington – v2
posted February 8, 2004
(4 days after started blog)
Barrington
Written 11/30/2000 at 9:30 for the Barrington Library
rededication on 12/9/2000



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