October 9*

Posted on October 9, 2011 by

fleeing vortex of sun
sucking in last of summer like a black hole

leaving only the perennials

those of us who
can speak
with winter

*Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island.

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