Poem: New Year (Rosh Hashanah)

Rosh Hashanah – Sept 6 – 8, 2021

new year.Ned Hayes

Rosh Hashanah comes
this year
on a day of cool wind,

a breathtaking
portent of winter

taking the world, rude lover
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the sheets away.

in autumn
the sadness of all things

is greatest
for now
the world was created.

the new fruit, shot through
with decay:

birthed in the same
moment,
the racing seed and
the worm.

 
published in Twig, Seattle Washington

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