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© 2008, Reprinted by Alicen Jay, nom de plume for the author

 

SEPTEMBER

September's crickets are more insistent now

than the ones in still-remembered August.

They rub out calls in emergency sounds

Knowing,

as we do now,

They must clutch life close

and hold on fast

before the end of the last September song

 

They must have heard, like me,

katydids telling of the coming frost,

when they, like me,

will then be stilled

 

The graceful mourning mourning dove, alone now,

perches on the branch of a nearby tree,

silent this time,

as though the mourning sounds around him

have silenced even him

 

Street lights on my street

light an earlier darkness now,

And high clouds must rush,

and higher still,

to catch a glimpse of sun

before it settles into the west of autumn

 

Like crickets,

I clutch summer to me,

denying I know September,

and mourn silently, like the dove,

the end of summer

 

But quietly,

like a racing cloud,

My soul beats October

to the Southern sun.

 

- Alicen Jay

 

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