Living vertically

Lower Warner Meetinghouse, in Warner, N.H.

Where I Live

is vertical:

garden, pond, uphill

pasture. run-in shed.

Through pines, Pumpkin Ridge.

Two switchbacks down

church spire, spit of town.

From “Where I Live,’’ by Maxine Kumin (1925-2014). She lived in Warner, N.H., where she and her husband raised horses. She received the Pulitzer Prize for her book  Up Country: Poems of New England.