POEM: A ‘briny bay’ christens a baby
Patricia Ranzoni, Bucksport’s former poet laureate, on the ‘ancients’ who ‘arrive by tide’ to welcome new life
POEM: On memory, love, and the richness of ancestry
Patricia Ranzoni, Bucksport’s former poet laureate, on gratitude to those who came before
POEM: A ‘garden of beautiful broken things’
Patricia Ranzoni, Bucksport’s former poet laureate, on a visitor’s ‘mending heart’
POEM: On arriving at the ‘banks of another spring’
Patricia Ranzoni, Bucksport’s former poet laureate, explores whats left when the ice is ‘finally gone’
POEM: Chasing a chicken with ‘a mind of her own’
Patricia Ranzoni, Bucksport’s former poet laureate, on following a chicken to ‘a sweeter place to be’
POEM: Remebering Devereux’s ice cream parlor
Patricia Ranzoni, Bucksport’s former poet laureate, remembers a 1930s ice cream parlor in Castine
POEM: “The frogs are singing!”
Patricia Ranzoni, Bucksport’s former poet laureate, on nature’s dialogue across seasons
POEM: Is faith enough to make a dream real?
Patricia Ranzoni, Bucksport’s former poet laureate, asks if dreams will actually deliver what we need