Sunday, September 23, 2007

Out of Sequence

Atonement over, now comes autumn.
First contrition, then the fall.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well done. How many get it?

Richard Epstein said...

I suspect it would have passed most readers by. Some sort of titular label--in the nature of a flashing neon finger, pointing at an explanation--might have helped; but that seemed the wrong approach to so understated a point. Why, this little comment already is longer than the poem.