“Peace and Rustic Beauty, With a Sense of History”

Settled in the late 1600s, this Litchfield County town is more densely populated than its neighbors, with a quaint downtown and more full-time residents.”

–Susan Hodara, New York Times, May 12, 2021

Birds call time on spring

Wild fruit ripens in summer heat

Rich perfumes beckon

Come, walk the winding back roads

Eat wild grapes, hear the rivers

Feel the darkness fall

Turn around and go home

To soft indoor light

Why are you here?, someone asks

This is home, the wild dark replies

You know the stories.

What you expect of others

Is that they too know

Birds call time, and summer comes

There is only one story

We smell, touch, taste it

Woodbury is the demesne

Of those who would know in truth

Exactly where they are

What has happened here

And the children

What they have done

And where they have gone

And what is to come.