Waiting

“So," said Moundshroud. "If we fly fast, maybe we can catch Pipkin. Grab his sweet Halloween corn-candy soul. Bring him back, pop him in bed, toast him warm, save his breath. What say, lads? Search and seek for lost Pipkin, and solve Halloween, all in one fell dark blow?"
They thought of All Hallows' Night and the billion ghosts awandering the lonely lanes in cold winds and strange smokes.

They thought of Pipkin, no more than a thimbleful of boy and sheer summer delight, torn out like a tooth and carried off on a black tide of web and horn and black soot.

And, almost as one, they murmured: "Yes.”

from The Halloween Tree
by Ray Bradbury

Smoky Sept trip to the mountains.

 

"An amphitheatre that held
Valleys and cliffs and waterfalls,
Gorges hewn like royal halls,
forests flanked by hills at swelled
To mountains, these again to clouds"

fron Titans

by E.J. Pratt

Calgary -12C/ 10F feels like -20C/-4F waiting for the furnace repair person (it might have finally stopped snowing)

 

"From the window. Yes and you know
In your heart what the chill winds blow."

from Watershed
by Margaret Avison

Very snowy day

  "burning on the snow
drag-footed across the fields
whiskey-faced men go

the blind lead the blind
and coarse oglers invade the
countries of the mind"

from Haiku on Brueghel
by Phyllis Gotlieb 

 While Calgary often gets snow in Sept and October, sometimes quite significant snowfalls, it normally lasts a day or so, then the autumnal weather returns. This year it has been cold and snowy for some days and today promises to be more of the same. 

Alberta, Canada, 2020

 

“This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo,
And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro.” 
― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterburty Tales 

from Snow Towards Evening by Melville Crane

"From some invisible blossoming tree

Millions of petals, cool and white.

Drifted and blew,

Lifted and flew,

Fell with the falling night."

 

Fall deer - Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park Oct. 9th

"Instructed by heron,
drink the pure silence.
Be compassed by wind.
If you quiver like aspen

trust your quick nature:
let your ear teach
you which way to listen."


from How to See Deer
by Philip Booth

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