ᎤᏔᎷᎩᏍᎩ ᎤᎵᎪᎲᏍᏗ, ᎤᎧᎭᏲᏛ ᏏᏅᏓ ᎨᏐ ᏍᎩᏴ ᎤᏕᏘᏴᏌᏗᏒ, ᎤᏲ ᏄᏍᏗᏓᏅ ᏍᎩᏴ, ᏕᏧᎬ ᎧᏂᎩᏛ ᏧᏆᎶᎦ, ᎾᏍᎩᏯ ᎤᏁᏍᏔᎳ ᎤᏲᏨ ᎦᎸᎶ ᏧᏓᏴᎳᏙ ᏂᏚᏍᏛ ᏕᏧᎬ, ᏃᎴ ᏅᏬᏘ ᎪᏒᏙᏗ ᎠᎾᎢ, ᎤᏬᏗᎨ ᎧᏁᏌᏟ ᎦᎳᎨᏴ ᎦᏙ.
Bright autumn, normally the driest month of the year, was like a new unsatisfactory season interjected into the year’s round, warm and wet and yet the tree limbs stark as shattered glass against the grey sky and the goldenrod and ironweed and joe-pye weed all beat down to brown trash on the ground.