Long Island Sound from Calf Pasture Beach in Norwalk, Conn.
“Catechist of gnarled oak trees, marshes, small suburban marinas,
cinders, and gutted mattresses, I let myself be slung
along tracks from one city toward another. Stain
of rose water where the Sound remembers the sun….’’
From “Northeast Corridor,’’ by Rosanna Warren (born 1953), daughter of the novelist and poet Robert Penn Warren, she grew up in Connecticut.
