Assabet River, Concord Conservation Land, Massachusetts
Rowing our boat against the current... we turn aside into the Assabeth,
A more lovely stream than this...
has never flowed on earth,
— nowhere, indeed, except to lave the interior of a poet's imagination.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, Mosses from an Old Manse
Great Brook Farm State Park, Massachusetts
Sparkling in diamonds. The songs from Heavens...
Allens Pond Wildlife Sanctuary, Massachusetts
The amalgam of woods, swamps, meadows,
and the rocky paths,
edging the pond that breathes the Ocean's tidal motions.
Feels like home to flaps and jumps...
From rock to rock, over the brook, through the leafy hideouts,
onto the blooming collage,
where each flower is just about where it should be...
