'Dream of tranquility'
Drake mallard performing the grunt-whistle
— Photo by Dariusz Kowalczyk
“So much like an old couple on their nightly walk
that they must, in fact, be one, they come now,’
webbing their way shoreward in the late light….
as in the dream of tranquility we all dream….’’
— From “Dusk: Mallards on the Charles River,’’ by Michael Blumenthal (born 1949), American poet and lawyer
The Weeks Footbridge over the Charles River. It connects Cambridge and the Allston section of Boston.