‘From heaven to earth’

“It hangs from heaven to earth.

There are trees in it, cities, rivers,   

small pigs and moons. In one corner

the snow falling over a charging cavalry,   

in another women are planting rice.’’

— From “Tapestry,’’ by Charles Simic, an emeritus professor of literature at the University of New Hampshire and former U.S. poet laureate. He lives on Bow Lake, in Strafford, N.H.

Bow Lake, in Stafford, N.H., from the town dock.

In Strafford: The Blue Hills and the Job Hills from Northwood Road, circa 1910