Fall/Autumn

This one feels different.

October 18, 2020

Ian Allen for The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/17/opinion/covid-19-winter.html

In My Mountain Town, We’re Preparing for Dark Times

As the contagion spreads, we look ahead to winter and wonder whom we can safely pull close.

Autumn Day

October 1, 2019

Lord, the time has come. Summer was abundant.

Cast your shadows over the sundial,

across the fields unleash your winds.

 

Command the final fruits to ripen.

Grant them two more southern days,

bring them to fullness and press

their last sweetness into the heavy wine.

 

Who  now has no house will not build one.

Who now is alone will remain alone,

will read into the night, write long letters,

and, restless, wander streets

where leaves are blowing.

 

-Rilke, Book of Images

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