the season quicker now
the darkening—
no longer the leaves
fluttering down
but the whole shadowed earth
reaching up, taking hold
Poem copyright ©2022 by David Baker, “Quicker” from The Southern Review, 58:1, Winter 2022 Poem reprinted by permission of the author and the publisher.
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