American Autumn

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American Autumn

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A HEAP!

THE FRONT-

YARD LEAVES

ARE GETTING DEEP

AND I HAVE PREMISES

TO KEEP AND PILES TO 

GO THAT I MUST SWEEP AND 

PILES TO GO THAT I MUST SWEEP

~J. Patrick Lewis, 

from Countdown to Summer: 

A Poem for Every Day of the School Year

I just love the way this poem is shaped like a rake!  I also like how Lewis imitates Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening".  

We only have one mature tree in our yard now -- and it has tiny leaves -- so we don't really need to rake in the fall. However, our previous house had 5 big maple trees in the yard, and I definitely remember that feeling of "piles to go that I must sweep"....