Deirdre G. Callanan, Coombs Bog
Listen:
Possibility
by Deirdre G. Callanan
Below September’s gauze
where a scatter of cranberries gleams,
some will imagine the bog as it was.
but the girl forsakes her reflection
in this balm between sorrows,
instead attends to the bee’s delirium.
They’re alone at this hour —
not even a turtle or damselfly,
just this bee & a girl, humming.
Deirdre Callanan, a journalist, photographer, teacher and poet, moved to the Cape in 1981 from Virginia. Since 2006, she has served on the writing faculty of the Washington-Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis.
Andrews Property and Coombs Bog • Centerville • 19 Acres • 1.1 miles
Parking: 521 Old Stage Rd, 3 parking spots.
Plaque location: Midway on the cross over path at the lower end of the “wooded marsh” between Bog 1 and 2 (on the bog 2 side of the path) so that you can look both ways to see how the two bogs differ.