Lower Warner Meetinghouse, in Warner, N.H.
Where I Live
is vertical:
garden, pond, uphill
pasture. run-in shed.
Through pines, Pumpkin Ridge.
Two switchbacks down
church spire, spit of town.
From “Where I Live,’’ by Maxine Kumin (1925-2014). She lived in Warner, N.H., where she and her husband raised horses. She received the Pulitzer Prize for her book Up Country: Poems of New England.
