“….I think
”I see the parts—haze, dusk, light
broken into grains, fatigue,
the mineral dark of the White Mountains,
the wavering shadows steadying themselves—
separate, then joined, then seamless:
the way, in fact, Frost's great poems,
like all great poems, conceal
what they merely know, to be
predicaments….”
— From “On the Porch at the Frost place, Franconia, NH,’’ by William Matthews (1942-1997)