Monday, October 04, 2021

Into October


Into October 

 These must be the colors of returning
 the leaves darkened now but staying on
 into the bronzed morning among the seed heads
 and the dry stems and the umbers of October 
the secret season that appears on its own
 a recognition without a sound
 long after the day when I stood in its light
 on the parched barrens beside a spring
 all but hidden in a tangle of eglantine
 and picked the bright berries made of that summer

 --W.S. Merwin

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