Along with everything else

Stereoscopic view of Long Wharf in Boston in the19th Century

“Wharves with their warehouses sagging
on wooden slats, windows steamed up
and beaded with rain—it's a wonder

weather doesn't wash them away. In time,

they seem to say, you’ll be gone too….’’

— From “Here,’’ by Betsy Sholl (born 1945), former Maine poet laureate