Autumn Poetry: A Crisp Collection

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Featuring contributions from both published authors and promising up-and-comers, this snappy collection of twenty-one autumn poems is sure to delight readers of all ages. Experience autumn moonlight, reddening leaves, and fading romances as you slip out of bathing suits and into corduroy jackets.

CONTENTS:
- Parting in Paris
- Tan Lines
- Hurtling Homeward
- Like a Bullet
- Transitions
- A Chestnut Drumbeat
- Early Harvest
- The Don River
- Neighborhood Leaves
- Rimming the Glass
- Itchy Shawls and Overalls
- Cougar Alert
- You're Dough in the End
- There Up the Mountain
- Zitty Pre-Teens
- World Under Moonlight
- Fall into Winter
- Academia
- Hanging On
- Wood if he Could
- Depression in C-Minor

SAMPLE POEM #1: COUGAR ALERT:
lady
you wear your heart
on your sleeve
which makes for
a very sincere
and bloody mess
you also have
all but spelled out
the grammatically
incorrect plans
you have for me
and your frankly
forward propositions would
have to be bleeped
out on prime-time TV
and I retreat
from your advances
because you scared
the smile right off my face
when you hiked up your skirt
licked your lips
and winked when I was only
asking for change
for a dollar
so that I could
feed the starving meter
where I parked.

SAMPLE POEM #2: RIMMING THE GLASS
The trees rimming the lake are layer on layer
of pastel colors, red, orange, and gold.

4PM with Anastasia was cocktail hour,
we made Bloody Cesars, lining
thin glasses with spices-
salt and paprika.

Our eyes burnt as we watched the heat
twist and contort shades of autumn
through the screened in porch.

We're speeding the boat back to the marina-
winter frost can gum up an engine and
bite into lacquer.