Warren’s — the firm, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper emerged from his morning stupor with a memory fragment from his country school days that went “October’s Bright Blue Weather,” which he knew to be the title of an old poem; but then he had to research to find it was by Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1855) who became known for her writing and her exposure of the Federal government’s flagrant violation of Native American treaties.
Sounding like his kind of woman–aka Phyllis, the keeper passes along one verse of Helen’s OBB and recommends the rest of it:
“O sun and skies and clouds of June,
And flowers of June together,
Ye cannot rival for one hour
October’s bright blue weather.”
