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5 literary passages to celebrate summer 2015

This week marks the official start of summer, 2015. Here to salute the new season, are five great passages about summer from writers past and present.

2. Ted Kooser, “The Wheeling Year.”

“Under orders, the junebugs throw themselves at the lighted window again and again, the privates, the corporals, the sergeants, even the second lieutenants. What must it be like to have light as your enemy, light with its numberless armies, bivouacked for the night in defensible houses, a camouflaged sniper lying on every leaf of every houseplant, watching you fail and fall back?”

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