‘Into these hills’
”Because it is the work that is the work
you could take the world itself to mean
yourself. Into these hills you’ve taken for granite,
like the present, you could take place and be one
with the subject of your feeling arising
before you….’’
— “Tourist (Franconia {N.H.} 1986)’’, by Christopher Gilbert (1949-2007), American poet. He was an Alabama native who ended up as a Providence resident.