“Here where everything is granite –
from the steps that prop the baby
for her first spring photograph
to the stones gossiping in the cemetery
two doors down – even the green
is lined with gray, and from
the blood-red buds just breaking
will comes leaves of waxy green
that raise their hands as if in protest,
showing palms of silver.’’
From “Connecticut in March,’’ by Sue Ellen Thompson. Before moving to Maryland in 2006, she spent most of her life in Mystic, Conn., on Long Island Sound.
Bascule bridge being raised in Mystic
