New England ghosts
“Form is a jostle, a throstle,
Life a slice of sleight,
“Indians are looking out from the
“Cheekbones of Connecticut Yankees,
”Poltergeists deploy northward
To tinderboxes in cupboards in Maine….’’
— From “Hard Structure of the World,’’ by Richard Eberhart (1904-2005), New Hampshire-based poet and Dartmouth College professor