ah, october

O Suns and skies and clouds of June,
And flowers of June together,
Ye cannot rival for one hour
October's bright blue weather;

When loud the bumblebee makes haste,
Belated, thriftless vagrant,
And goldenrod is dying fast,
And lanes with grapes are fragrant.

–Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–85)

Weather Folklore

When the cockle burs mature brown, it indicates frost. [United States]

Today in Weather History

1979: A tornado hit Windsor Locks, Connecticut

Cree word of the day: kaskatinowipîsim - "October (the freeze-up moon/month)" pic.twitter.com/OfvbIL6Hss

— Dallas Hunt (@Dallas_Hunt) October 3, 2017

Jazz (poem)

Poem TO LOVE

In “Jazz,” from the Atlantic's January 1922 issue, Theodore Maynard contemplates the dancers at a cabaret:

                                                                  Gay
   They were not. They embraced without dismay,
Lovers who showed an awful lack of awe.

Then, as I sat and drank my wine apart,
   I pondered on this new religion, which
   Lay heavily on the face of the rich,
Who, occupied with ritual, never smiled—
Because I heard, within my quiet heart,
Happiness laughing like a little child.

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