The News

Summary


"The News" is a short poem that turns the first signs of autumn into a quiet announcement. Katydids and crickets sing it beneath the trees, asters seem to spell it out with their blue eyes, and the corn sighs it as it sways in the sun. Each image carries the same gentle message, and together they capture the wistful, golden mood of a summer slipping away into a new season.

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The katydids say it as plain as can be,
And the crickets are singing it under the trees;
In the asters’ blue eyes you may read the same hint,
Just as clearly as if you had seen it in print.
And the corn sighs it, too, as it waves in the sun,
That autumn is here and summer is done.

Watercolor of asters, a katydid, a cricket and swaying corn in an autumn meadow, illustrating the poem The News.

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Credits

Persis Gardiner is a poet whose nature verse celebrates the changing seasons. In "The News", she plays with the idea of reading the season's arrival in the meadow, comparing the asters' blue petals to words printed on a page.