Sunday, September 20, 2015

A Book of the Seasons: September 20.

September 20. 

I see ducks or teal 
flying silent swift and straight–
the wild creatures. 
September 20, 1851

The dimpling circles
inscribed and erased amid
the reflected skies.
September 20, 1852

A great many small 
red maples in Beck Stow's Swamp 
are turned quite crimson, 
September 20, 1857



Our first fall rain makes
a dividing line between
the summer and fall.
September 20, 1857


Blackbird all alone
singing very earnestly

on an apple tree.
September 20, 1859





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 © 2009-2019

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