Gray and green

“Here where everything is granite –

from the steps that prop the baby

for her first spring photograph

to the stones gossiping in the cemetery

two doors down – even the green

is lined with gray, and from

the blood-red buds just breaking

will comes leaves of waxy green

that raise their hands as if in protest,

showing palms of silver.’’

From “Connecticut in March,’’ by Sue Ellen Thompson. Before moving to Maryland in 2006, she spent most of her life in Mystic, Conn., on Long Island Sound.

Bascule bridge being raised in Mystic