'A child passed through me'

Greenfield, Mass., from Poet's Seat Tower, 1917.

“Somewhere between Greenfield and Holyoke
snow became rain
and a child passed through me
as a person moves through mist
as the moon moves through
a dense cloud at night…’’

— From “In the Bus,’’ by Grace Paley (1922-2007). She lived in New York and Vermont