Sounds from the field

“Franconia Notch” (oil painting, left), by George Albert Frost (1843-1907); Franconia Notch in 2004 (right)

“There was a sound of grouse from the field

of grouse or a box guitar

And the way the storm idled over the mountain

revealing the mountain dissolving in light….’’

— From ‘‘Five Nights in the North Country Solstice,’’ by Kathy Fagan, an American poet. She was the poet-in-residence at The {Robert} Frost Place, in Franconia, N.H. , in 1985.