‘Thaw through frost’

— Photo by Scoo

“Home drive. High beams shearing the bromegrass,
blackcaps, brambles by the roadside;
red stems siphon frozen ground
grown soft, a bruise beneath the smooth suede
winter peach that rolls across
the dashboard. Thaw through frost….
…Mount Equinox, Ascutney …far ahead….’’

— From “Driving Sleeping People,’’ by Richard Kenney, who has lived in western Vermont and teaches at the University of Washington.

Mount Ascutney, in eastern Vermont