Thursday, January 14, 2016

A Book of the Seasons: January 14.


Bare, brown, scentless stalks,
color, scent, and flavor gone,
dry heads adhering.

We are related
to all nature, animate
and inanimate.


Examined closely
flakes are six-rayed stars or wheels
with a center disk.


This great blue presence
lurking woods and horizon,
mountains invisible.

Warm reddish color.
A wild and jagged leaf
revealed by the snow.
January 14, 1860

Bare, brown, scentless stalks.
Color scent and flavor gone
dry heads adhering.
January 14, 1852

Examined closely
flakes are six-rayed stars or wheels
with a center disk.

This great blue presence
about woods and horizon.
Mountains invisible.


January 1, 2018


A warm reddish color –
wild and jagged leaf
alternately serrated
revealed by the snow.
January 14, 1860


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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