Tree swallow
…."by the Mad River's (in Compton, N.H.) water-tangled weeds
grapevine and spruce bough, sparrow's lost
four-toed tracks disappear, her song's
a little heartbreak aria in blackberry bushes
then she remembers she can fly’’
— From “Mud Revolver’’, by Rick Agran, a Vermont-New Hampshire poet, teacher, photographer and journalist
Compton, N.H., in 1910, when much of the land was still open for pasturage.
