Poetry

Salt Point to Poughkeepsie

Autumn Travels

Susan Brearley
Nov 1 · 2 min read
Artwork by Emily Barnhill, Scenic Artist in Brooklyn, https://inabucket.wixsite.com/emilybarnhill

Up ahead, around the bend,
A battalion of brown leaves
march across the road
heads bobbling up and down
group of single file lines

scrambling as rapidly
as the Lieutenant colonel’s|
windy gust barks at them

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Susan Brearley

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