‘The dead ripen’
— Photo by Gerthorst78
“….The creek swells in its ditch;
the field puts on a green glove.
Deep in the woods, the dead ripen,
and the lesser creatures turn to their commission….’’
— From “Jug Brook,’’ by the Cabot, Vt.-based poet Ellen Bryant Voigt. Cabot is where Cabot Creamery, a producer and national distributor of dairy products, is based.