This last season

Covered bridge in Henniker, N.H.

— Photo by Jokermage

”This change of light and how it wakes you with uneasiness
and the shift of wind from the north that rains down ice

might keep you covered for months. You swear this will
be your last season in a place you believe is disappearing.’’

— From “This Last Place,’’ by Maura MacNeil, a Deering, N.H., poet and writing teacher at New England College, in Henniker.