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Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Fall

 At my house fall means leaves.

This carpets the ground.

I've found the perfect poem for how I feel about


Gathering Leaves
by Robert Frost

Spades take up leaves
No better that spoons, 
And bags full of leaves
Are light as balloons.

I make a great noise
Of rustling all day
Like rabbit and deer
Running away.

But the mountains I raise
Elude my embrace,
Flowing over my arms
And into my face.

I may load and unload
Again and again
Till I fill the whole shed,
And what have I then?

Next to nothing for weight,
And since they grew duller 
From contact with earth,
Next to nothing for color.

Next to nothing for use,
But a crop is a crop,
And who's to say where
The harvest shall stop?


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