New England Diary

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Quiet lope

— Photo by Airwolfhound

“As I followed my road,
the atmosphere altered
into a susurrus under the pines
and took shape in the lightfoot
lope of a rapt fox….’’

— From “Like No Other’’, by Peter Davison (1928-2004) Boston-based American poet, essayist, teacher, lecturer, editor and publisher