Book of Days
BOOK OF DAYS: A POET AND NATURALIST TRIES TO FIND POETRY IN EVERY DAY
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Posted with BlogsyAugust 30: Le Vieux-Quebec
Kristen Lindquist
August 29: Mountain nocturne
Kristen Lindquist
August 28: From Mount Philo
Kristen Lindquist
Down on Lake Champlain
two sailboats tack all morning:
imagine their view.
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| View from Mount Philo, VT, of Lake Champlain and the Adirondacks |
August 27: Moonlight in Vermont
Kristen Lindquist
August 26: Bread Loaf, Vermont
Kristen Lindquist
August 25: Neighborhood gang
Kristen Lindquist
August 24: There and back again on the Georges Highland Path
Kristen Lindquist
Out:
Hiking Ragged Mountain--
I can't slow down
or mosquitoes will catch up.
Back:
In the deep damp woods
I lose my shadow.
Wood-pewee whistles it back.
August 23: On the mountain
Kristen Lindquist
We took the chairlift most of the way up Sugarloaf Mountain today, then hiked the rest of the way to the summit on ski trails blanketed with stones, bunchberries, crowberries, cranberries, and flowering alpine cinquefoil. Just below the summit we were surprised to see a Whimbrel, a largish shorebird, fly past us.
sustained by berries
and flights of birds.
August 22: On the trail
Kristen Lindquist
We hiked in to spend the night at Poplar Stream Falls Hut, part of the Maine Huts & Trails network near Sugarloaf Mountain.
goldenrod abuzz with bees,
one red poplar leaf.
August 21: Sermons in stones
Kristen Lindquist
"And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds... sermons in stones, and good in everything. I would not change it." --William Shakespeare, in As You Like It
Sea-stones tell their stories--
the main character is time,
waves drive the plot.
