'Code Green from sun-up'

Home by Now

“New Hampshire air curls my hair like a child’s
hand curls around a finger. ‘Children?’ No,
we tell the realtor, but maybe a dog or two.
They’ll bark at the mail car (Margaret’s
Chevy Supreme) and chase the occasional
moose here in this place where doors are left
unlocked and it’s Code Green from sun-up…’’

— From “Home by Now,’’ by Meg Kearney