Yellow Leaves

yellow leaves

(10/4, 1998)

First Place   landing on   the hopscotch square   a yellow leaf                  JoannSecond Place   rising creek -   yellow leaves   pile in the bend                     Cindy ZackowitzThird Place   at first singly   then in threes and fours   yellow leaves                  Joseph Kirschner   BELOW THIRD PLACE   in the forest -   yellow leaves drift down   on yellow leaves                     Alison Williams      on sole of      summer sandal-      yellow leaf                   R. W. Richardson         yellow leaf...         from all those on her grave             I took you                         Hugh Waterhouse              returning it              with the book I found it in--              the yellow leaf                              Dennis H. Dutton                 solitude ~                 yellow leaves whisper                 ancient song                               Elsie Canfield                     tree in a clay pot -                     yellow leaves                     holding sunlight                                       Ferris                          changing direction -                          a few yellow leaves cling                          to the windshield                                             doris kasson                                morning breeze                                the calico kitten chases                                a yellow leaf                                                ebj   falling again-   one yellow leaf   from the family bible                          -willard       sound of wings       upon slanted light       a yellow leaf                      Rob Krevitz           September first:           a yellow willow leaf           twists as it falls                               Charles Trumbull              beneath the sycamore              she reads his letters                       -yellow leaves                                       jean king                yellow leaves                prostrating before                a stone Buddha                                 Gary Steinberg                   a yellow birch leaf                   beside the sawhorse -                   crosscut's jagged teeth                                             Paul MacNeil                       buttering toast                       he watches yellow leaves                       flutter in sunlight                                            Paul Blake   a rusted bike   hub deep in yellow leaves           sunlit wall                        A.C. Missias      first yellow leaf -      the last pear has fallen      on the brown soil                          -ito            released to flutter            and swirl with autumn's breath,            ginkgo's yellow leaves                                     Peg Lowmiller                 sudden shower-                 crystal droplets                 on fallen yellow leaves                                          Sue                      old sheet music                      for "September Song" -                      yellowed leaves                                       soji   giggling as they roll   in the yellow leaves piled high   Autumn Afternoon                      Betty       ardent love in autumn       brown - ocre - yellow       leave me for ever                         emile molhuysen           yellow leaves           accumulating           in the sun's wake                              Tom                yellow leaves                by the white house -- where's my                other sock?           copyright 9/20/1998 by Wendy C. Bialek                    the yellow leaves fall                    herded down the brick pavement                    by the autumn wind                                        Elaine Cleveland                         his hoary head                         those yellow leaves, shine                         on harvest moon                                          MGSwartout                                                    

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