Wanting to go,
all the leaves want to go
though they have achieved
their kingly robes.
Weary of colours,
they think of black earth,
they think of
white snow…
—Norman MacCaig, “Autumn”
published in The Poems of Norman MacCaig (Birlinn, 2009)
https://birlinn.co.uk/2022/10/21/poem-of-the-week-autumn-by-norman-maccaig/
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