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Leaves

Mark Fleury

At last a space for my mistakes, namely that I
Can leave here, being heart, to touch thought.
So in translating vision to listening,

The ageing of a human body withering also has
Beauty of brown and yellow of November leaves,
The way the sun always seems to be behind
Each tree’s brightest dusk. And by the time

The ground’s frozen with the coldness of moon,
Wind-tossed tatter of separate and together,
The hollow of
Moon’s whiteness is deeply carved with the

Blue from sky black enough for flickers of
Fireflies, stars, thoughts as
Leaves. And the degree to which
Earth and sky shelter each other into winter and
Prevent, in summer, either from drifting out of

Themselves is why the stem of a leaf will
Break when most vivid. Exposed from form
To space as flesh, between green and yellow,
Falls, closer to root than

Glass to sand; dryness: death’s only claim
To what leaf and body share.

So I thought I’d
Hide in the shadow of that lampshade on the
Shag yellow carpet before autumn’s arrival:

From childhood evening of a distant past
That has to be, as oxygen and flame, here,
Extension of mind as future. I can see,
Clear as white sheets of an old age bed,
The living room, and what, in the change of
Hands, warmth and feeling together become.



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