Autumn
'Bye Jule! 'Bye Gus! Your imperial licence has lapsed.
Equinoxial gales have shredded your poisoning pollen
and snapped your hot lines to heaven.
In this season that cools breath and blood
we count by democratic numbers,
September, October...
lying only a little about our year's true age.
Time to make new terms.
In this season of late registrations
synapses are fired by shoe polish, floor wax, printer's ink,
by blown leaves underfoot or a quote from Shelley.
Crunch time.
Not too late, if we're lucky, to cancel the clerical errors
defacing our worksheets,
to reach through our netted windows toward distanced faces,
to haul party hacks from their bear-and-bull
conference sideshows
and go shares with them in the sacrament of the sandcastle,
eyes lifted to frosty skies for larger views of the possible.
Not too late, if we're lucky, before our final admission
to a silent white order.
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magazine list
- Features
- zines
- 10th Muse
- 14
- Acumen
- Agenda
- Ambit
- Angel Exhaust
- ARTEMISpoetry
- Atlas
- Blithe Spirit
- Borderlines
- Brando's hat
- Brittle Star
- Candelabrum
- Cannon's Mouth, The
- Chroma
- Coffee House, The
- Dream Catcher
- Equinox
- Erbacce
- Fabric
- Fire
- Floating Bear, The
- French Literary Review, The
- Frogmore Papers, The
- Global Tapestry
- Grosseteste Review
- Homeless Diamonds
- Interpreter's House, The
- Iota
- Journal, The
- Lamport Court
- London Magazine, The
- Magma
- Matchbox
- Matter
- Modern Poetry in Translation
- Monkey Kettle
- Moodswing
- Neon Highway
- New Welsh Review
- North, The
- Oasis
- Obsessed with pipework
- Orbis
- Oxford Poetry
- Painted, spoken
- Paper, The
- Pen Pusher Magazine
- Poetry Cornwall
- Poetry London
- Poetry London (1951)
- Poetry Nation
- Poetry Review, The
- Poetry Salzburg Review
- Poetry Scotland
- Poetry Wales
- Private Tutor
- Purple Patch
- Quarto
- Rain Dog
- Reach Poetry
- Review, The
- Rialto, The
- Second Aeon
- Seventh Quarry, The
- Shearsman
- Smiths Knoll
- Smoke
- South
- Staple
- Strange Faeces
- Tabla Book of New Verse, The
- Thumbscrew
- Tolling Elves
- Ugly Tree, The
- Weyfarers
- Wolf, The
- Yellow Crane, The