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Bonnie J. Toomey's avatar

The rhyme and motion of words and the conservation of words and imagery is powerful. It’s how I feel when the summer people go home and you can hear yourself once again.

Nora O’Dowd's avatar

“Sound that spoke me awake” Lovely!

Diggy Writes's avatar

Beautifully capturing this season's feeling that I've never been able to put into words.

Corie Feiner's avatar

I love that it is an awakening happening in the season associated with comfort, slowness, and slumber.

Dave Mead's avatar

Although we are now in the depths of winter, I felt that poem as I read it. Absolutely beautiful, Joseph, thank you for sharing.