PLACES I HAVE KNOWN
by Joanna Gilman Hyde
The Hawk Deck 11:15am
The Birds of My Childhood —
I have Them All Here:
The Back Woods Jay Squawk
of Valley Cottage
The Low Brush Cheep
of The Chick-a-dee-dee-dee
The Harsh Cawing of The Morning Crow
on McNutt’s Island
The Hearkening Bleat
of The Summer Willet
from My Old Jordan Bay
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These places I will never see again
but They Call to Me Still
Joanna Gilman Hyde 
I think never-seen-again places retain their magic the best. They never change in the depths of our minds.
That’s correct. I will always remember the places as I knew them and not how I “know” of them now.