October 26: Front door decor

Window box flowers

clashing with Indian corn,

Halloween pumpkin.

October 16: Fall

Imprints of the fallen

leaves on the sidewalk

Ghost season

November 4: Late harvest

Indoor farmer's market--

piles of squash and pumpkins,

bouquet of rose hips.

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October 4: Here in the north

The sky has lost all color.
Moth on the screen
looks like a fallen leaf.

October 1: Harvest

Bins of pumpkins, apples,

six kinds of squash.

We talk in the car.

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September 15: Feels like fall

Harvest Moon tomorrow.

Chipmunk storing seeds

in the empty birdhouse.

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October 4: Stonington, Day Three

Barred Island Preserve

 

Only fall's chill

keeps me from rolling in that moss,

swimming at that beach.

 

 

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September 26: Full

under this full moon

apples ripen

birds dream of the jungle

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September 1: Les Fraises

Rural, farm-covered L'Ile D'Orleans in the St. Laurence River is the farm basket of Quebec. Strawberries are one of the specialties, with two seasons: summer and fall. After visiting L'Ile D'Orleans today, I checked out the permanent farmers' market near the Old Port Quebec, where I bought a cup of fresh strawberries and ate them on the spot. They tasted of summer, even as the season begins to turn to fall.

 

Strange to start September

here in Canada

with farm-fresh strawberries.

 

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November 28: Day after Thanksgiving

Decorative corn--
off the door, an offering
for the squirrels.

November 11: Wind, Leaves

A big animal wind
flushes the leaves.
We have no control.

October 27: Rising wind

Wind rising with dark--
the one tree with all its leaves
roars like a waterfall.

October 24: Crows at dusk

Dusk comes so soon now.

Perched on a bare, wet branch,

how big the crow looks.

October 23: Reflex

Dark and stormy night--
I keep swerving
to avoid skittering leaves.

October 20: Bare branches, bare arms in the cold

Trees shivering, leaves lost,
colors fading underfoot--
I'm not ready.

October 19: Winter is coming

Walking through Camden's Harbor Park and Amphitheatre this afternoon, the signs of coming cold were gathering with the fallen leaves.

Frost warning--

schooners wrapped in plastic,

flocks of south-bound sparrows.

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October 12: Autumn Zen

Fall leaves prayer flags.

On the front porch Buddha

contemplates a pumpkin.

September 17: Apples

tiny, perfect apple--
all of fall in three small bites
bittersweet

September 9: Fall in the air

Overhead in the dark
the sounds of geese flying.
We close the windows.

October 30: Buffleheads

Count six bobbing ducks,
then thirty. Coldest morning yet.
I hardly notice.