Walnut Hill Park, in New Britain, Conn.
“All that is left of landscape lies at the bottom
of a sea of summer air; the town is drowned
under that sky, remote above the building
that in the picture scarcely clear the ground.’’
— From “The Prospect Before Us,’’ by Constance Carrier (1908-1991), Connecticut-based poet and high school teacher, most notably of Latin. This poem is based on the view from Walnut Hill Park, in New Britain, Conn., the old manufacturing city where she taught for years.
