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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