This haiku by Robert Hunter describes the enormous silence of the late fall.
Haiku / Robert Hunter
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Failed Landscape in Kentucky
This poem, by Robert Hunter, describes the attempt to describe a beautiful landscape, which degenerates into merely imagining oneself as the landscape.
All Curtains Drawn / Valentine
This sorrowful, late-autumnal poem, by Valentine, is in a traditional sonnet form, something most of us have forgotten about completely. It describes the cold, and the lack of one’s beloved.
My Love Among the Mountains / Casey Haloran
This beautiful poem by Casey Haloran describes a long hiking trip with his beloved, and ends with a very peculiar image.
A Spectacle of My Misery / Adam Burton
This very bizarre and comical essay, by Adam Burton, describes the experience of crawling on hands and knees through a busy small town in the late afternoon.
Cicadas Cicadas Cicadas Cicadas Cicadas / Colm Bleecker
This work, by Colm Bleecker, contains 9 formally-symmetrical and absolutely brilliant “ways of looking at” cicadas—some mystical, some humorous, and some straightforward images.
Two Poems for October Wind / Charlie Dunn
These two fall-themed poems by Charlie Dunn contain a haiku’s sensibility, and give a sensation of cold and exhaustion, suitable moods for an autumn read.
Three Brief Dickinsonisms / Alecia Sakharova
These three “Dickinsonisms,” by Alecia Sakharova, are in faultless imitation of the beloved Emiliy Dickinson, in form and, to some extent, cognition.
Charlie and Thus / Charlie Dunn
This odd little fairy tale, much in the way of the old fairy tales, describes the success of a quick wit over the potentially evil forces of nature.
Discussing Evolution / David James
This scantily-rhymed little poem by David James describes a sort of wistful experience of taking his bird outside, in its cage.
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