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Four feet dangling off the edge of the front porch; gossip goes easy

Mill River Flood (Williamsburg)

Rude boards Slips of paper Rings on fingers Names, only

Reference: The Mill River Flood of May 1874, in Williamsburg, Leeds Massachusetts

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Did I just blurt those words out loud?

I'm not proud of the escape;

the things I thought but never meant to say

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Write into the night; shadow songs of lunar light; a tune; summer moon

Resting, river side, closing our eyes in the breeze of season's changing

What's to be done with a broken tip pencil and an edged eraser - a poem not finished and stories, yet to write?

Mill River Flood (Williamsburg)

And as far away as Goshen, the dam bursting, sounded like an earthquake, shaking ground and foundations

Theodore Hitchcock never made it - his dangerous trek across the river to the mill to find his ledgers of business records, and save it - No, Theodore Hitchcock never made it

Reference: The Mill River Flood of May 1874, in Williamsburg, Leeds Massachusetts

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the way the light slants, the silver of each raindrop

Mill River Flood (Williamsburg)

Milkman Collins Graves, with the sound of metal buckets banging and liquid inside, sloshing, makes his way to the villages, warning of the water to come, yells tossing as echoes of homes and businesses

Reference: The Mill River Flood of May 1874, in Williamsburg, Leeds Massachusetts

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Mill River Flood (Williamsburg)

If a horse can be a hero, then here, surely, is one, the same one, unnamed, who galloped three miles from dam to town, bearing the man, warning that disaster loomed, and still, not finishing this most important race, first

Reference: The Mill River Flood of May 1874, in Williamsburg, Leeds Massachusetts

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