“Father Time rusts, usurped.

Clockwork mustache crusted with frost

By Old Man Winter’s avengement plot.

Pitch pines draped and scrub oaks well dusted….’’i

— From “Hush,’’ by Linda Ohlson Graham, a poet who lives in Provincetown, on outer Cape Cod, where pitch pines and scrub oaks are among the most common trees because of the sandy soil.