Northern New England Review Volume 42 | 2022
Northern New England Review is published as a creative voice for the Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine region. NNER publishes writers and artists who live in, are from, or have connections to Vermont, New Hampshire, or Maine. If you live here, were once from here, lost or found your heart here, or are currently searching for it among the green hills, sparkling ponds, and rocky coasts, NNER has the poems, short fiction, and creative nonfiction you want to read. Northern New England Review is edited and designed by students and faculty at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, New Hampshire. Questions can be sent to Margot Douaihy, editor, at douaihym@franklinpierce.edu.
Northern New England Review is published as a creative voice for the Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine region. NNER publishes writers and artists who live in, are from, or have connections to Vermont, New Hampshire, or Maine. If you live here, were once from here, lost or found your heart here, or are currently searching for it among the green hills, sparkling ponds, and rocky coasts, NNER has the poems, short fiction, and creative nonfiction you want to read.
Northern New England Review is edited and designed by students and faculty at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, New Hampshire. Questions can be sent to Margot Douaihy, editor, at douaihym@franklinpierce.edu.
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Russell Dupont
JOURNAL, BARTON, VT.
Beyond Lebrecque's
down the earth-packed road
to the green underbelly of Pisgah,
I arrive from Boston
in the vaward of the day,
come bent down, beaten,
to the summer coolness of this house
in the shadow of these gentle hills.
I come here once again, alone,
no wife to hold,
Kinsley still a thousand miles west.
All these seasons of arrivals
and departures and I'm still a stranger,
on the neighbor's land.
But this house
set back on a rise,
green pasture behind,
throbs with past summers.
I am here to listen
to its song.
To begin again.
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