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THE CITY IS A SHRUB OF WONDERS

Mistress Anne Pollard recalls

her late arrival in Boston:

"We ate the wild blueberries

that grow like dark underfur

in the tall grass on the slope of Fort Hill.

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The water had the bright taste

of moss and old stone, so sweet

after the brackish mudwells of Salem.

Hermit Blaxton regretted

he'd invited us; he liked

preaching to his bull, and much

preferred marsh grass to people.

Her removed down to the Narragansett,

bewailing his bad judgment:

'They dump their slops in the street.

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