Something Doesn’t Love a Wall

Robert Frost. What he can do with words. This post contains bits and pieces of his poem mixed with my photos of an old rock wall. In Northwest Arkansas, you just never know where you will stumble across one. Can you imagine all the hard work that went into building it?

Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,

Something Doesn't Love a Wall – photo 1

That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,

Something Doesn't Love a Wall – photo 2

And spills the upper boulders in the sun,

Something Doesn't Love a Wall – photo 3

And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.

Something Doesn't Love a Wall – photo 4

I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;

And on a day we meet to walk the line

And set the wall between us once again.

We keep the wall between us as we go.

My apple trees will never get across

Something Doesn't Love a Wall – photo 5

And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.

Something Doesn't Love a Wall – photo 6

He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.

😉 -Marci