“An old silvery shed puzzles me with longing
And I free myself
By carefully slipping the reins from my shoulders
To follow:
But where? How can I move and keep the shed in view?’’
--From “The Shed,’’ by Henry Braun (1930-2014). After teaching literature and creative writing at Temple University, in Philadelphia, he retired to Weld, Maine, in interior western Maine, near the White Mountains, where he lived off the grid, as if in response to years of gritty city life.
Mt. Blue and Webb Lake, in Weld, Maine.
