‘The local idiom’

“I wait the proper bus, and, waiting,

hear my name called in sudden greeting —

and my own responses come

apt in the local idiom.’’

— From “Journey,’’ by Constance Currrier (1908-1991). Besides being a highly productive poet, she taught Latin in West Hartford and New Britain, Conn. She was born and raised in New Britain, which for many years as a major manufacturing center.