This is Les Murray's first new volume of poems since Poems the Size of Photographs …
Winter Winds by Les Murray
Like appliqué on nothingness like adjectives in hype fallen bracts of the bougain- magenta-and-faded-villea eddy round the lee verandah like flowers still partying when their dress has gone home.
— The Biplane Houses by Les Murray (Page 20)
@josh I LOVE THIS:
Like flowers still partying after their dress has gone home
I feel like that sometimes.
@Frankc1450@union.place Right?! So relatable 😅 And I love the imagery!
Poème d’Automne
by Langston Hughes
The autumn leaves
Are too heavy with color.
The slender trees
On the Vulcan Road
Are dressed in scarlet and gold
Like young courtesans
Waiting for their lovers.
But soon
The winter winds
Will strip their bodies bare
And then
The sharp, sleet-stung
Caresses of cold
Will be their only
Love.
