Last few days of Summer...

 "Summer's lease hath all too short a date..." -William Shakespeare

 End of summer  comes on Thursday, Sept 22, 2016. Time for one last minute classic poem to be read,  before fall sets in.  A poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) .Outspoken and prolific in her writings, she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923.

 "When poppies in the garden bleed

 And coreopsis goes to seed

 And pansies, blossoming past their prime

 Grow small and smaller all the time

 When on the mown field, shrunk and dried

 Brown dock, and purple thistle lie

 And smoke from forest fires at noon

 Can make the sun appear the moon

 When apple seeds, all white before

 Begin to darken in the core

 I know that summer............

 Scarcely here....

 Is gone........ 

 until another year......"