Summer on the Tree

After returning to Cambridge from a wonderful summer in Vermont, I found the Poetry Tree to be in great shape.  The Welcome message and Linda Pastan’s poem remained secured with the new system of plastic cables, and the Jorie Graham poem tied to a side branch with yarn remained in place, swinging in the gentle […]

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Jane Addams by Gwendolyn Brooks

Jane Addams by Gwendolyn Brooks I am Jane Addams. I am saying to the giantless time – to the young and yammering, to the old and corrected, well, chiefly to children coming home with worried faces and questions about world-survival- “Go ahead and live your life. You might be surprised. The world might continue.” It […]

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American Summer by Edward Hirsch

American Summer By Edward Hirsch   Each day was a time clock that scarcely moved, a slow fist punching us in, punching us out, electric heat smoldering in the purple air, but each night was a towering white fly ball to center field — ”a can of corn” — coming down through stars glittering above […]

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The Pasture by Robert Frost

The Pasture  by Robert Frost   I’m going out to clean the pasture spring; I’ll only stop to rake the leaves away (And wait to watch the water clear, I may): I sha’n’t be gone long.—You come too. I’m going out to fetch the little calf          That’s standing by the mother. It’s so young, […]

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