Tuesday, October 15, 2024

poem

October

October clouds piled high

like down comforters

blocking rumors of sun and sky


A fall chill seeps through cracks 

in casement windows

someone forgot to seal 


Strange blankets

stored in dank closets

for days like these


But too high to reach

not even with a stool

nothing to do but shiver 


Even worse is the mid afternoon

dispersal when the proven fact

of sun clears the last veil of vapors 


Cloudless, infinite sky

suddenly unceilinged.

to look up is dizzying


a vertigo of the already fallen

seeing for the first time

                     the extent of the fall

10/15/24


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