Indian Summer

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text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dyATvk3C_ZY/VD25BCMINnI/AAAAAAAAMaE/Sx0EgWWx4WU/s1600/Sky.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dyATvk3C_ZY/VD25BCMINnI/AAAAAAAAMaE/Sx0EgWWx4WU/s1600/Sky.jpg" width="240" /></a></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> The autumn day is warm and damp</div> <div class="MsoNormal"> expanding with the soft gold of the pear tree leaves.</div> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cRNlIvNXudg/VD25V2jAp-I/AAAAAAAAMaM/Wumjq1KJYmU/s1600/Pear%2BTree.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cRNlIvNXudg/VD25V2jAp-I/AAAAAAAAMaM/Wumjq1KJYmU/s1600/Pear%2BTree.jpg" width="240" /></a></div> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> Crows caw by the scarlet blueberry bushes</div> <div class="MsoNormal"> Six of them</div> <div class="MsoNormal"> And then leave.<br /> <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-58p2SxfDum4/VD27dYTNSqI/AAAAAAAAMao/BcVsWLK6mqQ/s1600/blueberry.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-58p2SxfDum4/VD27dYTNSqI/AAAAAAAAMao/BcVsWLK6mqQ/s1600/blueberry.jpg" width="240" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;">                    The wind blows wild grey clouds over the mountaintop toward the cabin</div>                    Deepening the browns and burgundies of leaves flying across the yard.<br /> <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-F5lQ91Z6NxE/VD253S4x0iI/AAAAAAAAMaU/8lqkWJtnj2c/s1600/Clouds%2Bover%2Bmtns.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-F5lQ91Z6NxE/VD253S4x0iI/AAAAAAAAMaU/8lqkWJtnj2c/s1600/Clouds%2Bover%2Bmtns.jpg" width="240" /></a></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> Between, patches of brilliant sunlight sweep up the hill, setting fire to the orange sugar maples<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ampQ7VuaAfs/VD27i0GMd-I/AAAAAAAAMaw/3d2_2hxo52A/s1600/maple.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ampQ7VuaAfs/VD27i0GMd-I/AAAAAAAAMaw/3d2_2hxo52A/s1600/maple.jpg" width="240" /></a></div> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> A solitary goose flies overhead.</div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> The tin on the old barn roof behind the house slams</div> <div class="MsoNormal"> And slams</div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> And a storm roars in through the forest.</div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> </div>

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Indian Summer

               I woke this morning to seven hawks                circling outside my window on the second floor,           ...