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FALL 1982

The procession of the seasons somehow strangely slowed,
Twenty degrees in November and no snow yet.
Caught between the changing parts; unable to hasten
My life's slide into the next relentless cycle; unable to stop it.
Like a cat, sitting on a windowsill, looking, tail twitching,
At the birds picking up seeds on their sunny way south.