October 21: Crows in wind
Kristen Lindquist
swirling crows
autumn wind
made visible
Book of Days
BOOK OF DAYS: A POET AND NATURALIST TRIES TO FIND POETRY IN EVERY DAY
October 20: Wind
Kristen Lindquist
startled awake
by eerie howling
autumn wind
October 19: Waxing moon
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night alone
in a stranger’s house
the same moon
October 18: Mozart
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Mozart up loud
wind-blown pines
also conducting
October 17: Fallen leaves
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unraked lawn
protecting habitat
for woolly bears
October 16: ALCS Game 3
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post-season baseball
timeless
green of the outfield
October 15: Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons”
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Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons”
spring in the car
fall outside
October 14: Winter ducks
Kristen Lindquist
Our nesting birds, the orioles and ospreys, have migrated south. And ducks that nested up in the Hudson Bay area this summer are also now migrating south, to the coast of Maine, here for the winter.
first frost
winter ducks returning
from up north
October 13: Sparrows
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autumn rain
sparrows feeding
in the leaf litter
October 12: Geraniums
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warm-ups
moving the plants
inside for winter
October 11: Birdfeeder
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home alone
filling the birdfeeder
for the company