10.1.2024

DEAR OCTOBER

Photo: Alexander Mils

You’re the year’s finest weather,
     Kit Kat discovered in the candy corn,
lapis skyfall before November’s gray.

You knock me out, knock me back
     like a draft of late-season hard cider
drunk all the way down your darkening days.

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NOTE: Sometimes you just have to repost a poem; this one is from almost a year ago. Happy October, everyone! For those who care about such things, these are Richard Howard’s 7/10/10 syllabic tercets.