Photo & Poem by Kareen
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The warm sun slanting,
Dew drops glimmering,
A soft-warm breeze tickling
The catnip leaves.
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Sweet-September morn!
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The last of the yellow daisies bend
-Like the rays of the golden sun-
A little lower to the land.
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A cheep, a chirping,
The scurrying
Of a fat-black cricket
Into the cool-damp.
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I feel a waning:
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A need to say goodbye
To the tiny-white alyssum,
The tender-green grass,
The effervescent hummingbird.
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Farewell to chasing
Brittle-gray moths
Flittering,
Fluttering in the sky.
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Time cannot be commanded.
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The rays that drench the earth,
pour out as milk in a bowl -
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I sit lapping, lapping!
Drinking,
As much as I can.
