Bettel, Connecticut
BY half-past 5 on a morning in early October, the sun rising over Blackwater Pond had already brightened the pine woods. I stood in a wide natural path, carpeted with brown-red needles, that rises up the forested dune from the southwest side of the pond.
I’d seen
their hoofprints in the deep
needles and knew
they ended [...]
brightened the pine woods