— Photo by Greg Hume
“Two yellow dandelion shields do not make spring,
nor do the wild duck swimming by the shore,
so self-possessed, so white of side and breast,
nor, I suppose, the change in land-birds’ calls….’’
From “Night Wind in Spring,’’ by Elizabeth Coatsworth (1893-1986), Maine poet
Chimney Farm, in Nobleboro, Maine, where Elizabeth Coatsworth lived with her husband, the famed writer Henry Beston.
