made with powder blue bricks,
disappears
on the most beautiful days.
Driving up Grafton
the illusion's complete -
(gasp, how did it happen?)
the sky meets the street.
Massachusetts.
A cold spring day.
Stone lined stream,
brooding dark waters,
harsh, reflecting.
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
author of the Scarlet Letter
rowed on the Assabet;
how appropriate.