Thursday, August 21, 2025

Calendar by John Updike

 Calendar

by John Updike

Toward August's end
a hard night's rain;
and the lawn is littered
with leaves again.

How the seasons blend!
So seeming still,
summer is fettered
to a solar will

which never rests.
The slanting ray
ignites migration
within the jay

and plants for nests
are hatching when
the northern nation
looks white to them.

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