<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Into October<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; ">These must be the colors of returning</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; "><br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: inherit; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; ">the leaves darkened now but staying on</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; "><br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: inherit; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; ">into the bronzed morning among the seed heads</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; "><br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: inherit; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; ">and the dry stems and the umbers of October</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; "><br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: inherit; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; ">the secret season that appears on its own</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; "><br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: inherit; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; ">a recognition without sound</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; "><br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: inherit; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; ">long after the day when I stood in its light</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; "><br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: inherit; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; ">out on the parched barrens beside a spring</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; "><br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: inherit; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; ">all but hidden in a tangle of eglantine</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; "><br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: inherit; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; ">and picked the bright berries made of that summer</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>- W.S. Merwin</span></div></body></html>