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The Gifts of Autumn: #3. Luscious sunsets for dessert

"October is

when night guzzles up

the orange sherbet sunset

and sends the day

to bed

before supper...."                                     (excerpt from October by Bobbi Katz)

Words for Wednesday

Dahlias

by Sarah Day

Strangely bright
their electric colours
leap at me
from dark places.

At night I smell
the rusty rag leaf, brown water;
through the black
their lurid shapes come flaunting back,

shockingly exposed.
Their rude truth glares at me.
I shut my eyes.
The air weighs thick with acrid odors.

Source: Australian Poetry Library

More about the poet: The Write Stuff, Sarah Day