‘Into these hills’

In Franconia Notch in 1915. The northern part of Franconia Notch State Park is in the Town of Franconia.

”Because it is the work that is the work

you could take the world itself to mean

yourself. Into these hills you’ve taken for granite,

like the present, you could take place and be one

with the subject of your feeling arising

before you….’’

— “Tourist (Franconia {N.H.} 1986)’’, by Christopher Gilbert (1949-2007), American poet. He was an Alabama native who ended up as a Providence resident.