October’s End

by Oonah V Joslin

wood notes

scaling down toward sleep

lengthen in sunset mist

it’s time for plums,

the soft, sweet bruises

of summer

across the lawn neglected

sunflower heads droop

and blacken

and silver birch leaves

overturned curl up

against the chill

this house, long-dead

celebrates past silhouettes

in silence

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Oonah V Joslin is poetry editor at The Linnet’s Wings. She has won prizes for both poetry and micro-fiction. Her book Three Pounds of Cells ISBN: 13: 978-1535486491 is available online from Linnet’s Wings Press and you can see and hear Oonah read in this National Trust video. The first part of her novella A Genie in a Jam is serialised at Bewildering Stories, along with a large body of her work (see Bibliography). You can follow Oonah on Facebook or at Parallel Oonahverse https://oovj.wordpress.com/.