What's the Meaning of "Month"?

 

First of September--
Still, high leaves glow in the sun.
(What's the meaning of "month"?)

 

  I sit looking out;
Spider races across floor;
I crush, without thought.

Labor Day Sunday;
Boy on bike smiles to himself;
Now the sun breaks through.

Solitary leaf
Has become a pale yellow--
Leader of the pack.

Prickly thistle bush
Has become a dead brown husk;
All the puffs have fled.

In thick leaves' center:
Small yellow flowers emerge--
Autumn blooming.

Through the dim lit trees,
Patch of sunshine in the woods;
Light beyond the dark.

How many dishes
Washed in this abandoned sink?
How many chapped hands?