“I passed by the fence
and looked up,
and whatever happens
happened to make that sky
seem timeless,
awash with well-being….’’
— From “A Green Evening, September, 1952,’’ by Brendan Galvin (born in 1938), American poet. He was born in Everett, Mass., and now lives in Truro, Mass., on Cape Cod.
The grand Parlin Memorial Library, in Everett
— Photo by Elizabeth B. Thomsen
