'Blurred thumbprint'

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“In a parking lot in Boston,

a flock of birds passed over me,

blurred thumbprint on the massing clouds.

The hair on the back of my neck

moved with wind….’’

— From Vermont poet Jennifer Bates’s “Storm, after ‘Approaching Storm: Beach Near Newport,’” by Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904)(above)

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