ALT Somewhere Grace Paley Somewhere between Greenfield and Holyoke snow became rain and a child passed through me as a person moves through mist as the moon moves through a dense cloud at night as though I were cloud or mist a child passed through me on the highway that lies across miles of stubble and tobacco barns our bus speeding speeding disordered the slanty rain and a girl with no name naked familiar wearing the nakedness of the last days of childhood breathed in me once no two breaths a sigh she whispered Hey you begin again Again? again again you’ll see it’s easy begin again long ago