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Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.

Deep Water: ‘Willow Street,’ by Jonathan Aldrich Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling. Share This week we feature a poem by the accomplished and much beloved Cape Elizabeth poet Jonathan Aldrich, who passed away last week. In “Willow Street,” from Aldrich’s first book, the speaker describes a place “not far from here” that also seems to be something more than a place. As the poem weaves gracefully between the tangible and the abstract, the space and state it conjures feel both mysterious and deeply, timelessly familiar. Aldrich wrote over a dozen books in his 40...