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| In a fallow field |
How well we know it
Goldenrod then asters then witch hazel late
How the birds leave us
Killdeer then redwings then hawks on their glidepaths
What falls around us
Ashes and cherries then maples then oaks
Walnuts' indelible husks smack the earth
Things as we know them each in its time
Cycles repeating in a rational universe
Ordered by a mysterious intelligence
The turning of spheres the living the dying
Grandparents parents old friends then us
The natural order accepted expected
An orderly fall
Never a child never no never a child
