The shadow knows

— Photo by Etan J. Tal

“A wind passed over my mind,

insidious and cold.

It is a thought, I thought,

but it was only its shadow.’’

— From “The Image-Maker,’’ by Stanley Kunitz (1905-2006), a native of Worcester who served as U.S. poet laureate, he divided much of his time between New York City and Provincetown.