‘Fear advances’

“What most we fear advances on

Tiptoe, breath aromatic. It smiles.

Its true name is what we never know.’’

— From “Sky,’’ by Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989), poet, novelist and critic. A Kentucky native, he lived in Fairfield, Conn., and Stratton, Vt., in his later years.

Stratton, Vt., meetinghouse

Robert Penn Warren in 1968