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Fall

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  • Poem
    By Countee Cullen
    If for a day joy masters me, Think not my wounds are healed; Far deeper than the scars you see, I keep...
  • Poem
    By Alvin Feinman
    And the light, a wakened heyday of air Tuned low and clear and wide, A radiance now that would emblaze...
  • Poem
    By David Tait
    A week of autumn snow, and today the sun, the buildings fizzy with melting, the beggar draping his sheets...
  • Poem
    By Zakaria Mohammed
    I await the end of August and the murder of September. I am here, tardy Autumn, waiting for you. I’ve...
  • Poem
    By Annie Finch
    Our voices press from us and twine around the year's fermenting wine Yellow fall roars Over the ground. Loud, ...
  • Poem
    By May Swenson
    1 A smudge for the horizon that, on a clear day, shows the hard edge of hills and buildings on the other coast...
  • Poem
    By Barbara Crooker
    and the garden diminishes: cucumber leaves rumpled and rusty, zucchini felled by borers, tomatoes sparse...
  • Poem
    By Joseph Massey
    Sober for once, for what— for the words to budge. We spent summer propped up by each other's stuttering...
  • Poem
    By John Brandi
    fallen leaves
    the abbot sweeps
    around them 
  • Poem
    By Sandra Lim
    It’s now within an hour of sundown of a late November afternoon. It was a beautiful day, the cold burned...
  • Poem
    By Stacy Szymaszek
    I saw this day coming class would end and it would be night time to attach bike lights tonight I lit...
  • Poem
    By Antonia Pozzi
    Now you want me to tell you a history of fish while the lake clouds over? But don’t you see how thirst...
  • Poem
    By Myra Sklarew
    Today the moon sees fit to come between a parched earth and sun, hurrying the premature darkness. A...
  • Poem
    By Bradley Trumpfheller
    From up here in the leaves’ no-kidding goldishness you’d guess everyone was already in lovely w/ each...
  • Poem
    By Wallace Stevens
    Life contracts and death is expected, As in a season of autumn. The soldier falls. He does not become...
  • Poem
    By Robert Frost
    Spades take up leaves No better than spoons, And bags full of leaves Are light as balloons. I make a...
  • Poem
    By Robert Frost
    I came an errand one cloud-blowing evening To a slab-built, black-paper-covered house Of one room and...
  • Poem
    By Wallace Stevens
    i The World without Imagination Nota: man is the intelligence of his soil, The sovereign ghost. As ...
  • Poem
    By Ursula K. Le Guin
    AUTUMN gold of amber red of ember brown of umber all September MCCOY CREEK Over the bright shallows...
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