Jane Kenyon reflects on the work and waiting for a week, a day, an hour of glorious excess when peonies bloom in this timeless essay from the Yankee archives.
Each summer is ushered in by June bugs — those rowdy blunderers that bang on screens and whirl around porch lights as though intoxicated by their message.
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