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Fall
by Edward Hirsch
Fall, falling, fallen. That’s the way the season
Changes its tense in the long-haired maples
That dot the road; the veiny hand-shaped leaves
Redden on their branches (in a fiery competition
With the final remaining cardinals) and then
Begin to sidle and float through the air, at last
Settling into colorful layers carpeting the ground.
At twilight the light, too, is layered in the trees
In a season of odd, dusky congruences—a scarlet tanager
And the odor of burning leaves, a golden retriever
Loping down the center of a wide street and the sun
Setting behind smoke-filled trees in the distance,
A gap opening up in the treetops and a bruised cloud
Blamelessly filling the space with purples. Everything
Changes and moves in the split second between summer’s
Sprawling past and winter’s hard revision, one moment
Pulling out of the station according to schedule,
Another moment arriving on the next platform. It
Happens almost like clockwork: the leaves drift away
From their branches and gather slowly at our feet,
Sliding over our ankles, and the season begins moving
Around us even as its colorful weather moves us,
Even as it pulls us into its dusty, twilit pockets.
And every year there is a brief, startling moment
When we pause in the middle of a long walk home and
Suddenly feel something invisible and weightless
Touching our shoulders, sweeping down from the air:
It is the autumn wind pressing against our bodies;
It is the changing light of fall falling on us.
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Natalie Diaz, from "Manhattan is a Lenape Word", Postcolonial Love Poem
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October, Louise Glück
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Louise Glück, “Snowdrops”
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Jihyun Yun, from Some Are Always Hungry; “The Leaving Season”
[Text ID: “It’s strange / to know this world I loved, / loves me best / dismembered.”]
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To the Reasoning of Eternal Voices, to the Waves That Have Kept Me from Reaching You--
by Brian Tierney
In the photo negative, the sea is light. Holding it I think of your lung
and a spreading appears. Other winters--
The drip that by the bed filled the Folgers can with shit
every hour. How I read you the weather
and Dharma Bums. You said in time I'd understand Kerouac
was unworthy of the Buddha, then asked me stop.
By then you'd lost your right front tooth,
which embarrassed me; you'd clear a corncob as if playing a flute,
whichever side of your mouth hurt less that day.
Which is maybe what you meant, that memory can be kind
of an accomplishment. The chaplain tracing a cross
of oil with his thumb on your forehead, and your eyes following
upward his hand, then holding, following,
holding. Like a kid who believes
he's watching a kite, when he's watching the breeze.
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adam wakes up, probes his side. rib gone, wound sticky. god's fingers have touched a place that will never be touched again. how does adam not curl up, swell and fall, beg god to touch him again. to touch him everywhere else. not just ribs but cheek, inner thigh, lap. the worst part of the side-wound is not that god penetrated you but that he won't do it again
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and now it's october by Barbara Crooker
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