Cardinal Gold vs. Black & Gold
Weather’s perfect for the Big Game
Autumn & Football, Divine!
GO STATE!!
atop a quilt sewn with love
ciabatta bread, slab of provolone
autumn mauve hydrangea blooms
an early September picnic with thou
47 degrees
chill September morning
white birch bark shimmers in the sun
my favorite mug of tea
an eager earth
darkness bearing down
out of the northwest
an ominous sky
bursting with promise
getting played
the mellow season
unofficially, autumn begins
already, a few leaves have turned
Labor Day weekend wanes
*
summer décor, banished to the B.
wave after wave, I carry up
scarlets, crimsons, mauves & golds
*
closets sorted, drawers realigned
new beginnings in the dusk of summer
lovely fall is underway!
perusing all sorts of shelves: my personal collections, my Kindle, the NYT best-seller lists, recommendations from friends & dozens of literary newsletters that crowd my Inbox each & every day
it’s almost unfair,
so many books, so little time
overwhelming, that’s what it is
but in a delirious,
OMG, kind of way
college football season begins
stadium rumbles & roars
alumni pride colors the stands
anticipation ripples & surges —
the ball is snapped
and here we go!
the tune-up
case in point
every poem begins
as a superfluous conglomeration
of letters, vowels,
white space
and excess
A Sawyer's Daughter 
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