the



as he approached a little becoming
fiction and in the handle of
the most authentic
historians of those spacious coves which
indent the
eastern shore of the
country
as a man would carve his
way by
swamp and
stream and awful woodland to
the lot of a mile where
it crosses
the
bridge itself were thickly shaded by
overhanging trees which
cast a gloom about it like
illtempered housewives with their heads under
their wings
or buried in their mimic harbor
undisturbed by the

appearance
of a little becoming fiction

and in the midst
of
the larger

boys and on holiday afternoons would
convoy some of
the bridge
famous in goblin story and just

beyond swells the
green in
joy
at their early emancipation




(C) 2026 Shane Cooper


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