“In late winter
I sometimes glimpse bits of steam
coming up from
some fault in the old snow
and bend close and see it is lung-colored
and put down my nose
and know
the chilly, enduring odor of bear.’’
-- From “Bear,’’ by Galway Kinnell (1927-2014)
Kinnell reading his poetry in the Grindstone Cafe in Lyndonville, Vt., on March 16, 2013. He lived in tiny (population about 700) Sheffield, Vt., in the state’s Northeast Kingdom. Kinnell, a Pulitzer Prize winner, served a stretch as Vermont’s poet laureate.
Labor Day parade at Sheffield Field Day 2017
