New England Diary

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Stone life


“Behind the suburban development

in a boulder-strewn field

            Where imagination animates

            Erratic granitic herds

                          Of hippos half-submerged….
a man, like a ‘barber’….

mows the grass around

A knelling elephant of stone….’’  

 “Megaliths, ‘’ by Robert Chute, a Maine-based biologist and poet