Timeless sky

“I passed by the fence

and looked up,

and whatever happens

happened to make that sky

seem timeless,

awash with well-being….’’

— From “A Green Evening, September, 1952,’’ by Brendan Galvin (born in 1938), American poet. He was born in Everett, Mass., and now lives in Truro, Mass., on Cape Cod.

The grand Parlin Memorial Library, in Everett

— Photo by Elizabeth B. Thomsen