October

J.D. Harms
Nov 2 · 1 min read
Photo by Craig Whitehead on Unsplash

Snow like ash
reigns on the next moment
& the next

The streetsweepers
left almost alone
to pick up the miasma

of branches & leaves
cosmic leftovers
from the first storm
of the Fall

The weight of the damp world
resists
its pull to warmth

J.D. Harms 2019

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committed to the aesthetic voice, forever charmed by the endurance of myth, aiming for synthesis

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