Declensions

Key West Poet Laureate Kirby Congdon (Photo by Richard Watherwax)
Key West Poet Laureate Kirby Congdon (Photo by Richard Watherwax)

Each leaf that falls is its own monument
for the life it had leaving a shadow’s shape,
each edge enterred in the depths of air
providing our summer with a season’s name
and my own body with a time inside the brain
defining those eternities a man would claim
with every sense of his being as always
or forever in the present tense,
like an elegant fence standing alone
surrouning a memorial’s weather-proof stone.

Kirby Congon

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