Death village

Water Street in Stonington, Conn.

“Shortly before I died,
Or possibly after,
I moved to a small village by the sea….
The rocky sliver of land, the little houses where the fishermen once lived.…”

— From “In the Village,’’ by James Longenbach (1959-2022), America poet. The poem is inspired by his time in Stonington, Conn.

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