When summer was long

One of the “Dune Shacks’’ of Peaked Hill Bars Historic District in Provincetown and Truro, on outer Cape Cod. The shacks include those that have been home to American painters and writers from the 1920s to the present day.

“Bring back the long summer after fourth grade

with stinging-cold waves the crashed on the Cape,

the tall, white dunes we scrambled across….’’

— From “Album,’’ by Gardner McFall (born 1952), an American poet