How I know autumn has arrived: the shortened day length, a frost not that far north of us, the orange/gold/red of the leaves, the Twin Cities Marathon, the Apple Fest at Bayfield. On our way to the cabin last weekend I also noticed fields of soybeans now like bright yellow coverlets flung across the land, and more than one farmer harvesting a corn crop.
A Little Off the Sides
The tractor lumbers
down an arrow straight row,
corn spitting from picker
into the open bed of a truck.
Behind them they leave
the earth looking like
an upswept Mohawk:
blonde stalks next to stubble
with roots of dark brown.
I know this. Just yesterday
I saw it on a boy's head back in town.
Marilyn Aschoff Mellor
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