A Book of the Seasons: August 3.

August 3.
East window at noon.
Crickets and the sound of a
distant piano.
August 3, 1852

The pretty bare red

peduncles and pedicles

like fairy fingers.

August 3, 1856.

A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau
"A book, each page written in its own season,
out-of-doors, in its own locality."

~edited, assembled and rewritten by zphx © 2009-2015