New England Diary

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Stronger than erosion

Long Wharf, in Boston, in the 19th century.

“Wharves with their warehouses sagging

     On wooden slats, windows steamed up

            And beaded with rain – it’s wonder

 

Weather doesn’t wash them away….’’

 

---From “Here,’’ by Betsy Sholl (born 1945(), a former poet laureate of Maine, where she lives in Portland