‘Discover in stone’

Cutting through granite in Waterbury,Vt., in the late Fifties as part of the construction of Interstate Route 91.

“When highway-makers cut through a granite hill, scoring

deep trench-sides with vertical drillings, they leave behind

glittering sculptures, monuments to the granite state

of nature, emblems of permanence

that we worship in daily disease, and discover in stone.’’

— From “Granite and Grass,’’ by Donald Hall (1928-2018), of Wilmot,N.H., poet and essayist. He served as U.S. poet laureate.

Here’s the whole poem:

https://folklife-media.si.edu/docs/festival/program-book-articles/FESTBK1999_12.pdf