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(September 22, 2023, eve of the Fall Equinox, and feast day of  The Giving of the Name of Mary to Our Lady by St. Ann (related image above), Our Lady of Lampedusa  (crowned 1967, recrowned 1980), the "Hearer" Icon of the Mother of God, Saint Digna of Rome, Saint Emerita of Rome and Saint Gunthildis of Suffersheim (her prayers brought springs). On Jewish calendar tonight begins Shabbat Shuva, or the Shabbat of return-- Yom Kippur begins eve of September 24. (Tomorrow commemorates Temple Dedicated, 826 BC). Image from here.)

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(on the last day of summer, 2023)

Toes wiggling out from under covers.

Languid memory, of strolls under soft sky.

Now, it's air conditioner’s purr--Joseph’s 

“Honey, come meet our supper”

fresh caught flash of silver scales.

Kitchen humms, hosts

river’s perfume.

From prompt: freewrite as inspired by today being the last day of summer/tomorrow the Fall Equinox, and by “The Sound of Summer” by David Budbill. From Dylan Klemptner's Writing with Others (MedStar Georgetown University Hospital's Arts and Humanities Program), September 22, 2023.