Late November
Not a cloud or wisp of cloud
ruffles the wide unwrinkled sky
stretched tight as a blue scrim.
Trees stand bare and mute,
each leaf played out, a fallen note
in this quiet concert hall.
Intermission.
Somewhere in a large white room
another orchestra tunes up.
by Richard Meyer, first published in Orbital Paths.
Editor’s Note: The clean, spare lines of this poem reflect the pause between the seasons with great silence.
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