A Week In Vermont (Day 5)

Poetry: Recession by Sydney Lea
A grotesquerie for so long we all ignored it:
The mammoth plastic Santa lighting up
On the Quik-Stop’s roof, presiding over pumps
That gleamed and gushed in the tarmac lot below it.
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Lyrical: Why We Build the Wall by Anaïs Mitchell
The enemy is poverty/And the wall keeps out the enemy/And we build the wall to keep us free/That’s why we build the wall

Art: Sanford Ross’s Connecticut Valley

Quote: “One today is worth two tomorrows.” – Vermont proverb

Recipe: Maple Bourbon Apple Cider

Anywhere But Here: Dummerston Vine, Dummerston, VT