Tuesday, November 17, 2015

A Book of the Seasons: November 17.





November 17, 2019



The season when plants
put forth fresh radical leaves 
against a new spring. 

Fish hawk hovering
(a raw cloudy afternoon)
looking very large.

The first snow falling
just after dark when my hands 
uncomfortably cold.

The manifold ways
at this season that light is 
reflected to us.

looking to sunlight 
on pale-brown bleached fields these days 
as to a wood-fire.

These days looking lo
sunlight on pale-brown bleached fields
as to a wood-fire. 
November 17, 1858

A myriad of
surfaces are now prepared 
to reflect the light. 
November 17, 1858

Windows now reflect 
the setting sun more brightly 
than other seasons.


Looking toward the sun.
a glowing warm brown red
andromeda swamp

These tawny-white oaks
by color and character
cougars among trees.

November 17, 2018

  Another Indian-summer day, as fair as any we've had.  November 17, 1859


November 17. 2018

November 17, 2015


November 17, 2018






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 © 2009-2020

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