Too cold to paddle –
water freezes the handle
and numbs my fingers.
The bare barren earth
cheerless without ice and snow –
but how bright the stars.
I find acorns which
have sent a shoot down into
the earth this fall.
So new this country
inhabited by species
unknown to science.
November 27, 2021
~edited, assembled and rewritten by zphx © 2009-2019
A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau
"A book, each page written in its own season,
out-of-doors, in its own locality.”
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