October Wallkill NWR

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october ramapo river lake henry

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sundial time

Imprecise but nice enough to tell the hour

Nice to have this sundial reconstructed

Placed to advantage in the midday sun

Aligned with the north star at night

Wide copper band parallel to the equator

Numerals cut out to display highlighted

Gliding across the reading surface

Silently crossing the center line axis

Marking high noon moving up and down

As the seasons turn, following the analemma curve

Adjusting sundial time to match clock time

As the day-over-day duration changes

Constructed with a geocentric understanding

When the sun revolved around the earth

As out of place in our digital world as a slide rule

An analog approximation, an ancient awareness.

franklin lakes early october

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