Rosh Hashanah — September 25-27, 2022

new year.

Ned Hayes

Rosh Hashanah comes
this year
on a day of cool wind,

a breathtaking
portent of winter

taking the world, rude lover
tossing
the sheets away.

in autumn
the sadness of all things

is greatest
for now
the world was created.

the new fruit, shot through
with decay:

birthed in the same
moment,
the racing seed and
the worm.

published in Twig, Seattle Washington

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