Archive for Sunday, November 8, 2009

Poet’s Showcase: ‘Autumn Song’

November 8, 2009

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The grass turns;

flowers few and lanky

sprawl;

and nights, finally cool,

lengthen;

On gray mornings,

the birds and I are quiet,

waiting.

I depend on golden days

ahead,

leaves crunching

underfoot,

To cheer me,

before the snow.

— Priscilla S. McKinney is a lecturer in English at Kansas University.

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