'Black parabolas'

“When the mink ran across the meadow in bunched

black parabolas, I thought

sine and cosine, but no —

the movement never dips

below the line.’’

— From “The Mink,’’ by Rosanna Warren (born in 1953 in Fairfield, Conn.), the daughter of the late novelist, literary critic and U.S. poet laureate Robert Penn Warren and writer Eleanor Clark. She graduated from Yale University with a degree in painting.

Mink have staged a comeback in New England in recent decades.

Route 1, aka the Boston Post Road, in downtown Fairfield in 1953, when Ms. Warren was three. Route i was the main drag or the Northeast back then, before the Interstate Highway System.

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