ZtonePhruit: A Book of the Seasons: August 21.

Friday, August 21, 2015

Measure the progress

of the season by the clock

of the blue vervain . . .

so you get not the

absolute time – but the true

time of the season.

The progress of the

blue vervain measures the true

time of the season.

This afternoon I

noticed a yellow spider

on a goldenrod.

Bees on goldenrods

improve their time before the

sun of the year sets.

There are as few

or fewer birds heard

than flowers seen.

Methinks I have not

heard a robin sing morning

or evening of late,

August 21, 1853

Small wary dipper –

solitary, dark-colored –

diving midst the pads.

August 21, 1854

Rains all day and wind

rises and shakes off much fruit

and beats down the corn.

August 21, 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."