‘No hitch in the sequence’

“The Wounded Bricklayer,’’ by Francisco de Goya (1746-1828)

“Overhead the sea blows upside down across Rhode Island.

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Charlie drops out. Carl steps in.

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No hitch in the sequence.’’

— From “The Tragedy of Bricks,’’ by Galway Kinnell (1927-2014), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. He was a native of Providence who spent the last part of his life in Sheffield, Vt. (pop about 700).

— Photo by Artaxerxes