Dispatch #24

Autumnal Equinox

The “lune” is a poetic form developed by poet Robert Kelly who felt that the syllable count in traditional haiku (5/7/5) was too long. He shortened the second line of seven syllables to three syllables.

“Kelly named the form ‘lune’ by virtue of its thirteen syllables (corresponding to the thirteen lunar months) and its crescent-like shape.”

What follows is a triptych of lunes for the end of summer and the beginning of fall.

The Autumnal Equinox is tomorrow!

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it begins to blur —
the skyline,
the light around things

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another summer
long enough
to stump memory

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now you remember
the texture —
the dark collapsing