Dear September, (A Summer-lover's Entreaty)

Yesterday disappeared before I had a chance topoem-welcome September💖 These days are a beautiful blur of pick and preserve,of pausing to delight in the precious pleasure dwindling summer days... Hold back the mellow, yellow haze seeping through sheen of summer greenAnd bar the gate where morrows wait to toss echoes from hill to hillAnd keep at bay dusk’s blue and gray that draws today to what-has-beenWhere farewells waft somewhere aloft but close enough to spark a chill Delay the woo that will undo the lullaby in woodland tressAbate the tide that turns the countryside to works of autumn artAnd pause the haste that lays to waste summer-wild and chaste happiness...and strive to slow the letting go that tugs at ties wound through the heart Postpone the thrill of standing stock-still, stunned by sweeps of gold and roseOh, stay the hand that weighs the sand that falls through summer’s sanguine skiesAppease the want for flower-font and garden dirt between our toesExtend the boon of sunny afternoon regaled with butterflies Stoke summer’s dying ember, dear September, gild its darling dustWith prolonged trace of Queen Ann’s lace to grace commonplace avenuesKiss the lament of summer spent with plums, and throes of harvest-lustAh, time enough to spill the Stuff that unfurls Autumn’s thund’ring hues © Janet Martin now, off to dig potatoes because I discovered they are starting to rot!!due to all the rain. Happy September Saturday to you! And FINALLY, the kind of forecast we have been waiting for all summer!!