Ducks for peace

View of Malletts Bay (part of Lake Champlain) from Bayside Park near the center of Colchester. Vt., home of St. Michael’s College.

‘'Now she’s mesmerized by a duck & drake

teaching paddling, oblivious fledgling

how to play follow-the-leader.

A peace sign spreads in their wake.’’

From “A Wake on Lake Champlain,’’ by Greg Delanty, an Irish-born American poet who lives in Burlington, Vt., and teaches at nearby Michael’s College.