Jessica Poli

Another great fall poem is Jessica Poli's "Spring" in Dialogist, no. 1, issue 2. Despite the different season named in the title, there is a real sense of fall and encroaching snow and cold in this poem, a slow, cautious mood that resonates in autumn. Snow begins to come slowly, but then retreat. Things often seem suspended in a molasses-like approach of the coming ice and silence.

Here's an excerpt:

In the evening,
a buck’s antlerscradle lightat the edge of a field.

Snow has cleared [...]

Silently, the buck
pauses to drink snowmeltbeside a half-tree split by wind. [...]

evening’s shifting lightcasts a labyrinth of twistedroot and horn.