The View from Hinsdale Bridge
Look north: we get to live here, storybook
town, spires and October lights on the banks
of the Connecticut, and Whetstone Brook
and the sky, forest, and hills: we’re here. Thanks.
Now turn south: same river, same shine, a rusted-
out railroad bridge (nice enough). Full moon
rising over Wantastiquet. Why trust
the nuke down there, forever? That’s us, too.
We get to live here. Tomorrow the boats
will appear, gliding silent through the mist,
solitary sculls, rowing just to row,
to be here, to look back on all of this.
for Marti
© Michael Fleming
Brattleboro, Vermont
October 2011
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