April 16: Chicken

neighbor’s black chicken

strutting on the snow

spring pastoral

April 13: Driving stories

roadside memorials

counting crows

all the way to Vermont

October 22: Bread Loaf

Autumn poetry reading.

Fireplace crackling

with warm applause.

October 21: Sky-watching

Writers’ conference.

Watching Orion’s slow rise

over the mountain.

October 20: White River

Following the White River

to its mountain source.

Driving back in time.

December 3: First snow

A kid again

waking just after dawn

to see winter's first snowfall.

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December 2: Green Mountains

Driving northward through Vermont--

where Camel's Hump should be

only thick clouds.

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June 26: Mount Equinox

At just over 3,800 feet, Mount Equinox is the highest mountain in the Taconic range in southwestern Vermont. From Manchester Center, there's an private toll road to the top (owned by Carthusian monks) which offers some spectacular views of the Taconics, the Green Mountains, and the valley between them. And the occasional wildlife sighting.

 

Matters of scale:

driving down the mountain

we slow for a crossing vole.

 

 

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November 21: Night out with old friends

Moon a frosty blur

we stop and notice

before we share hot sake.

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November 20: Camel's Hump

Camel's Hump is the second highest mountain in Vermont's Green Mountains, and its peak has a unique shape visible over many miles and familiar at first glance after many months or years.

 

Beyond parking lot,

highway buzz, traffic lights,

Camel's Hump simply is.

 

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August 29: Mountain nocturne

No moon tonight: clouds.

No owl: crickets.

Mountains, fields: a seamless dark.

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August 28: From Mount Philo

Down on Lake Champlain

two sailboats tack all morning:

imagine their view.

View from Mount Philo, VT, of Lake Champlain and the Adirondacks

 

 

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August 27: Moonlight in Vermont

Last light gilds the fields.

Raven calls the full moon up

for eight cameras.

 

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August 26: Bread Loaf, Vermont

You've been here before.

Greet the hayfield like a friend,

wave to the raven.

 

 

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July 25: White River

We drove on Route 107 along Vermont's White River this afternoon. The water was very low, as is typical in summer, but we could see signs everywhere of damage caused by the floodwaters of Hurricane Isabel a few years ago.

 

We follow the river

low now in its stony bed.

Cows graze the floodplain.

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July 24: Woodstock, VT

One farm to the next

we drive through green valleys

following the river

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November 22: Lake Champlain

Biting cold--

across the grey lake

clouds and mountains.

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November 21: I89 to Burlington, VT

Snow starts, then stops.
Crows mass in whitened fields,
dead deer in the median.

November 20: To Vermont

We drive all day

over the mountains to Sue's.

There's snow here and stars.

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June 6: Reunion

I'm at my Middlebury College reunion this weekend, in verdant, summery Vermont, tucked in the Champlain Valley between the Green Mountains and the Adirondacks.

 

The only thing unchanged

after 25 years--

this mountain view.

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