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Autumn

Again the wind
flakes gold-leaf from the trees
and the painting darkens—
as if a thousand pentinents
kissed an icon
till it thinned
back to bare wood,
without diminishment.

— Jane Hirshfield, in The October Palace

13th October 2012
Tags: Jane Hirshfield Autumn thoughts that breathe my autumn heart poetry lit

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