‘The local idiom’
— Photo by Kenneth C. Zirkel
“I wait the proper bus, and, waiting,
hear my name called in sudden greeting —
and my own responses come
apt in the local idiom.’’
— From “Journey,’’ by Constance Currrier (1908-1991). Besides being a highly productive poet, she taught Latin in West Hartford and New Britain, Conn. She was born and raised in New Britain, which for many years as a major manufacturing center.