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Autumn Leaves

volume 4 number 6

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New Year's Party

by Sondra Ball

Bang on the cymbals.
Make the whole night ring.
Blow metal whistles
while the people sing

under the full moon
that brightens the snow,
that sends silver light
to dark stones below.

Call out at midnight
with careless good cheer,
"We wish everyone
a merry good year."

Forget for a while
time carved out the moon,
and wants to carve you
a tombstone soon.

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