"Now I will abandon the route of my life
as my shadowy wives abandon me, taking my children.
I will stop somewhere. I will park in a summer street
where the days tick like metal in the stillness.’’
— From “Mr. Wakeville on Route 90,’’ by New Hampshire-based poet Donald Hall (1928-2018). Route 90 includes the Massachusetts Turnpike.
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