Can’t keep
“Some woman every year
Must catch her breath and weep
With so much wildness near
At all she cannot keep.’’
— From “The Geese,’’ by May Sarton (1912-1995), prolific Belgian-American writer. In the last 22 years of her life, she lived in a house (since demolished) on the coast of York, Maine.
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