Here is the full text for “Dates of Autumn,” an original poetic piece written in the spirit of the season.
The second date comes with a clatter of dry leaves skating down the asphalt. You wear a sweater you forgot you owned, and the light tilts sideways after three o’clock.
The dates for autumn vary depending on whether you are using the calendar or the meteorological one. Standard Definitions (Northern Hemisphere)
Here are the key features of autumn, broken down by category: dates of autumn
On the third date, the apples are heavy and dumb with sugar. A smoke of woodsmoke leans from a chimney before the fire is even lit. You begin to crave things that take hours: bread, patience, the slow undressing of the garden.
So you turn your collar up. You walk inside. You leave the door unlocked for the winter because you know now: every ending is just a dark room where the next beginning is waiting to be lit.
The eighth date is a funeral and a feast— the last tomatoes, bruised but sweet, the first frost stitching silver across the grass. You take down the summer wreath, hang up the bone-white gourds. Something in you is dying, something else is being born. Here is the full text for “Dates of
The "official" start of autumn can differ significantly based on local tradition and geography:
: In the traditional calendar used in China and Korea, autumn begins with Ipchu (立秋) around August 7 or 8 and ends around November 7.
The sixth date is the quietest: a fog that swallows the hills, a spider’s geometry glazed with dew, the sound of a single acorn hitting the driveway. You remember every person you have ever loved in October, and you forgive them all. The dates for autumn vary depending on whether
: Many Americans treat Labor Day (the first Monday in September) as the unofficial start of the fall season. Autumn Features & Characteristics
: According to Met Éireann, autumn spans September to November, but ancient Gaelic traditions (the Irish Calendar) place it from August to October .