Fall Seasonal Reading

Featured readers will include:
Sunny Bridge, Jim Burrell, Janet Kamnikar, Sandy McGarry, Jack Martin, Celia Turner, Roger Clark, Lynn Kincanon, Cortney Collins, BJ Clark, Terry Nolan, Cathy Casper, Veronica Patterson, Lorrie Wolfe, and music by Josh and Elena Berman.

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Sara Teasdales's poem, September Midnight, is shared here for inspiration.

September Midnight

BY SARA TEASDALE
Lyric night of the lingering Indian Summer,
Shadowy fields that are scentless but full of singing,
Never a bird, but the passionless chant of insects,
Ceaseless, insistent.

The grasshopper’s horn, and far-off, high in the maples,
The wheel of a locust leisurely grinding the silence
Under a moon waning and worn, broken,
Tired with summer.

Let me remember you, voices of little insects,
Weeds in the moonlight, fields that are tangled with asters,
Let me remember, soon will the winter be on us,
Snow-hushed and heavy.

Over my soul murmur your mute benediction,
While I gaze, O fields that rest after harvest,
As those who part look long in the eyes they lean to,
Lest they forget them.