Monday, September 22, 2008

Poems for the First Day of Autumn


"Autumn is always too early."

---from Autumn, by Adam Zagajewski
(trans. by Renata Gorcynski)
source: www.poetryfoundation.org


"The milkweed pods are breaking

And the bits of silken down

Float off upon the autumn breeze

Across the meadows brown."

----from The Milkweed, by Cecil Cavendish
source: www.egreenway.com






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