A silvery lure

“An old silvery shed puzzles me with longing

And I free myself

By carefully slipping the reins from my shoulders

To follow:

But where? How can I move and keep the shed in view?’’

--From “The Shed,’’ by Henry Braun (1930-2014). After teaching literature and creative writing at Temple University, in Philadelphia, he retired to Weld, Maine, in interior western Maine, near the White Mountains, where he lived off the grid, as if in response to years of gritty city life.

Mt. Blue and Webb Lake, in Weld, Maine.