Poem for Lucy Leaving

If I could be honest
for as long as it
takes that red leaf
to fall within my mind--

I'd tell you that
you are that leaf;

that all my life
I've been in love
with leaves;

that what hurts me
is not their falling,
but the red-
ness they fall with.







Copyright (c) 2000 by Douglas Eichhorn       
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