Late Summer

Came across this poem, which felt right and true, and decided to decorate it:

Late Summer by Anna Kamienska

I’ll lock myself now

in a cell of prickly hay

to think through all from the beginning

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A leaf a root an ant a hare

the sea a cloud a rock

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I’ll think about them
as a sinner thinks
about his sins

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I’ll ask myself
whether I regret very much
not belonging to a land of green

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I’ll question how many times
I didn’t ask roots which way to go

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I’ll repent before water a cloud
a birch-tree

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I’ll wash their feet
and dress their wounds

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Why can’t I be reconciled
to green rustling life
and sleep among mortal dreams

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Leaf
teach me to fall
on the indifferent earth

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 I’ll lock myself now / in a cell of prickly hay / to think through all from the beginning

a leaf

Jekyll island, GA, Dec 2013

Tower Hill, MA, July 2008

ME, Oct 2007

NH, Oct 2013

NH, Nov 2013

NH, Oct 2013

pine, NH, Sept 2010

a root

an ant

a hare

the sea

a cloud

Jekyll Island, GA, Sept 2014

Reid State Park, Georgetown, ME, May 2007

Jekyll Island, GA, Sept 2013

Kezar Lake, NH, Feb 2013

Popham Beach, ME, April 2007

Jekyll Island, GA, Sept. 2008

Jekyll Island, GA, Sept 2013

Eastern Shore, MD, Jan 2010

Jekyll Island, GA, Sept 2014

a rock

Foss Beach, NH, Feb 2011

New London, NH, Oct 2013

Reid State Park, Georgetown, ME, May 2007

I’ll think about them / as a sinner thinks / about his sins

Pine Point, ME, June 2014

Foss Beach, NH, Feb. 2011

I’ll ask myself / whether I regret very much / not belonging to a land of green

 

I’ll question how many times / I didn’t ask roots which way to go

St Andrews, Jekyll island, GA, Sept 2014

I’ll repent before water

a cloud

a birch-tree

I’ll wash their feet / and dress their wounds

Why can’t I be reconciled / to green rustling life / and sleep among mortal dreams

Leaf / teach me to fall / on the indifferent earth