'Depth seizes everything'

Stereoscopic image of visitors to Mount Monadnock in the 19th Century

“It is New Hampshire out here,

It is nearly the dawn.

The song of the whippoorwill stops

And the dimension of depth seizes everything.’’

From “Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock,’’ by Galway Kinnell (1927-2014). He spent his later years in Vermont.

Mr. Kinnell reading a poem at the Grindstone Cafe, in Lyndonville, Vt., on March 16, 2013.

A male Eastern Whippoorwill