October 20, 2006

   Mid-Fall

The air has the wistful quality
of foreshortened time
variable as a kite
and prone to morning sickness;
Quisp’d of quickened draft,
pregnant with Old Man Winter.

For S.A.D's, the light alley narrows
to the size of European streets;
For OCDs the leaf clutter
mars clean-shaven forest floors.

Meantime every seventy-degree day
holds the promise of being the last,
prompting impromptu celebrations
of the narrowing of winter’s girth.


             

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