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Birth Of A Season

Footsteps stir September’s leaves;
Ants point the air and hurry home;
The wind incontinently grieves
Beneath the sky’s forbidding dome.

Dried flower heads bow low in fear;
Dust rises in a giddy spin;
The clouds eke out one small tight sear
For summer–and the rains begin.

by Ray Romine Monday, September 10, 1951

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Media name: Saturday Evening Post

Date Submitted: 07/13/1952


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Date Submitted: 08/05/1952


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Date Submitted: 08/24/1952


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Date Submitted: 09/03/1952


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Date Submitted: 09/18/1952


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Date Submitted: 05/30/1953


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Date Submitted: 06/15/1953

Date Sold: 06/24/1953

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