‘Like raccoons’
“Remember the way we bore our bodies to the pond
like raccoons with food to wash? Onto the blue,
smooth foil of the gift-wrapped water I slid….’’
— From “Puberty,’’ by William Matthews (1942-1997), an on-and-off New Englander
“Remember the way we bore our bodies to the pond
like raccoons with food to wash? Onto the blue,
smooth foil of the gift-wrapped water I slid….’’
— From “Puberty,’’ by William Matthews (1942-1997), an on-and-off New Englander