‘The dead ripen’

— Photo by Gerthorst78

“….The creek swells in its ditch;

the field puts on a green glove.

Deep in the woods, the dead ripen,

and the lesser creatures turn to their commission….’’

— From “Jug Brook,’’ by the Cabot, Vt.-based poet Ellen Bryant Voigt. Cabot is where Cabot Creamery, a producer and national distributor of dairy products, is based.

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