New England ghosts
“Form is a jostle, a throstle,
Life a slice of sleight,
“Indians are looking out from the
“Cheekbones of Connecticut Yankees,
”Poltergeists deploy northward
To tinderboxes in cupboards in Maine….’’
— From “Hard Structure of the World,’’ by Richard Eberhart (1904-2005), New Hampshire-based poet and Dartmouth College professor
‘Metaphor for devastation’
“While he {Robert Frost) was talking he was looking out,
But stayed in, sagacity better indoors.
He became a metaphor for inner devastation,
Too scared to accept my invitation.’’
— From “Worldly Failure,’’ by Richard Eberhart (1904-2005), an American poet. He knew Frost (1874-1963), a giant of English language poetry.