{"id":113424,"date":"2019-09-21T00:28:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T07:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=113424"},"modified":"2019-08-31T12:29:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T19:29:17","slug":"a-sonnet-for-summers-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2019\/09\/a-sonnet-for-summers-ending.html","title":{"rendered":"A Sonnet for Summer’s Ending"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I love this time of swan song summer days
\nwhen autumn is not quite here but her red
\nfingers, fresh with new paint, like a child, plays
\nat tinging the leaves\u2019 edges overhead.
\nI love the silver-pearled webs appearing
\nhere and there and the bare hint of cool breath
\nof dawn giving up the ghost to cheering
\nsunshine\u2019s last glad hug. It\u2019s a sweet, good death.
\nI love the apples, green and big, bowing
\ntheir branches under weight of fruitfulness.
\nI love Charlotte\u2019s smiling pink mouth chowing
\ndown on one, her bright joy all truthfulness.
\nChildhood and age dance in these days of light
\ndeparting into tender starlit night.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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