Summer is a-goin' out, fall is comin' in - Poems & photos

Summer
left grudgingly
with an hour's thunder,
wind blowing still-green leaves from two
maples.
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wisteria
clipped from crape myrtle
sending up a shoot
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Stretching
for the suet
--to no avail--the finch
finally hops to a closer
branch, eats.
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A wren

flies to the porch,

then to the flowerbed.

A hummingbird whirrs in to sip

red sage.

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Baby

lizard dares to

emerge from behind the

porch box; I shake my footstool, it

goes back.

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across the sidewalk

dandelions facing 'mums

summer into fall

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brown thrasher

enjoying the suet

alone

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Mother's Day hibiscus