Tortured portability?

Street car in Amherst, Mass., in 1901.

“My outer world and inner make a pair.

“But would the two be always of a kind?

“Another latitude, another mind?

“Or would I be New England anywhere?’’

— From “New England Mind’’, by Robert Francis (1901-1987), American poet. He spent most of his life in the college town of Amherst.

Here’s the whole poem.

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