Split Rock
breaks
silent waters;
Mount Chocorua
in the distance is not so immense as the rock.
For the children
Split Rock
is the largest piece of nature on Whitton Pond;
they play and climb and leap
into the water from its height or
row canoes between
the halves.
First published in The Trinity Review, Spring 1982.
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