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A Poem to Welcome September

A Poem to Welcome September

Grace: Wendell Berry

Sep 01, 2024
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Grace

Wendell Berry

Photo by Bruce Kee on Unsplash
The woods is shining this morning.
Red, gold and green, the leaves
lie on the ground, or fall,
or hang full of light in the air still.
Perfect in its rise and in its fall, it takes
the place it has been coming to forever.
It has not hastened here, or lagged.
See how surely it has sought itself,
its roots p…

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