A Letter in October (Ted Kooser)

An appropriately timed poem: A Letter in October by Ted Kooser.

Well, firstly, I wonder a letter to whom. But then, I turn to thinking about what he has written in the letter. I agree that October, that fall is a time to be indoors and be self-reflective.

There are a lot of neat connotations with light and dark and the deer and age. Despite its common language, I think that the middle stanzas are not as clear as they could be. They seem muddled. Or perhaps, it just gives another excuse for deep contemplations in this colder, darker month.

Favorite line: "Dawn comes later and later now, / and I"