60 Seconds for Time Out Tuesday: What Makes Autumn a Favorite Season? Is it the Poems?

<p>Hello to you listening in <a href="https://hebdenbridge.org/visiting/" target="_blank">Hebden Bridge</a>, a market town in the Calderdale district of West Yorkshire, England!</p><p>Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Time Out Tuesday and your host, Diane Wyzga.</p><p>You’ve heard his music as the backdrop for my 60 Seconds podcast episodes, my guest interviews, and most recently my newly launched Quarter Moon Story Arts <a href="https://mailchi.mp/390203457310/newsaudioletter-october-2023?e=16dac199b6" target="_blank">NewsAudioLetter</a>. Steve Schuck is my delightfully complex and complicated - as family members of Creatives might agree - musician, recording artist, song writer, author, and brother-in-law. His label, <a href="https://www.nightheron.com" target="_blank">Night Heron Music</a>, has received multiple awards.</p><p>But Steve and I also share a love of poetry. <i><strong>All Hallows</strong></i> by recently deceased Nobel Prize winning poet <a href="https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2020/gluck/biographical/" target="_blank">Louise Gluck</a> is one of his favorite seasonal poems. We thought you might enjoy it.</p><p><strong>All Hallows</strong></p><p>"<i>Even now this landscape is assembling.</i></p><p><i>The hills darken. The oxen</i></p><p><i>sleep in their blue yoke,</i></p><p><i>the fields having been</i></p><p><i>picked clean, the sheaves</i></p><p><i>bound evenly and piled at the roadside</i></p><p><i>among cinquefoil, as the toothed moon rises:</i></p><p><i>This is the barrenness</i></p><p><i>of harvest or pestilence.</i></p><p><i>And the wife leaning out the window</i></p><p><i>with her hand extended, as in payment,</i></p><p><i>and the seeds</i></p><p><i>distinct, gold, calling</i></p><p><i>Come here</i></p><p><i>Come here, little one</i></p><p><i>And the soul creeps out of the tree</i>." [~ <a href="https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2020/gluck/biographical/" target="_blank">Louise Gluck</a>, from her fi