'Innocent indeed'

Watercolor of autumn scene by Stanisław Masłowski, done in 1902

“Maybe in New England in the Fall
with the trees all plush and plump like fireballs
and the waters still warmed by a patient sun
I'd write the poetry I should have done
when both of us were younger
— innocent indeed —
the world not yet the place
it's since become.’’

— From “Maybe in New England,’’ by Emlyn Wentwhistle