The arrival of autumn

Words from May Swenson, Louise Glück, and Sonia Sanchez

From left: Selected vegetables from the kitchen garden, 1978, John Stewart, Pears on a branch, 1994, Helene Schjerfbeck, The reading girl, 1914, Ilse Bing, Leaves and Twigs, Paris, 1952

I went to sleep in the summer
I dreamed of rain
in the morning the fields were wet
and it was autumn

–Linda Pastan, September

The beginning of autumn, like waking from a dream. It does feel like that.