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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