Fall --footnote to season's/change

Fall¹
—footnote to seasons/change

Thank you—
I know…
  You too—

Don’t want to go—
  not yet.

September…
  here again.

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¹   The stubborn equinox
 spills the inkwell—
 burnished light
 staining the margins.

 This chapter, Bittersweet.
 Pages sticky
 to turn.

 Still—
 the static air
   clings to you.

 I’ll fold the corner,
 marking
 its place.