'Eaten far in Concord'
Comestible, comprehensible.
Heaped up in digestible portions
Thoreau had eaten far in Concord
And still this knoll
With its floor of puce-colored leaves
under May’s green mist
feeds the visitor….’’
-- From “Walden Once More,’’ by Robert Siegel (1939-2012), American poet and novelist. He spent much of his life in his native Mideast but in his later years he lived in South Berwick, Maine