In the depths of November, poet Ashley Abitz immerses readers’ senses in autumnal richness with her poem “Imagining Autumn in Lubbock”. At play with sound, flavor, fragrance, texture, and of course lush fall imagery, “Imagining Autumn in Lubbock” makes room for seasonal transition and the passing of the “citrus sunlight” of summer to “the crash of spiced/autumn weather” of fall.
Imagining Autumn in Lubbock
Alder thickets rattle with rain —
water cascades, scrapes, makes
way for vanilla, almond, chai;
no more tangerine or lemon-lime.
Gray leaves clatter and tap, kiss
the earthy floor more monochrome
while winter wizens mornings with
its jagged, whispered breath. No
more wanting citrus sunlight
soaked in cedar veins, no
more tinkling yellow kisses
for their little rigid leaves.
Time to bask in the crash of spiced
autumn weather, its thumping bass
fingering rhythmic bliss.
Ashley Abitz
Ashley is an MFA student in poetry at Emerson College. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The Harbinger and Beyond Words Magazine, and she received the Stephen Ross Huffman Poetry award in 2021.
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Wow Ashley, that was like a fruit salad with tomatoes and an avocado in it. That’s not bad. It’s different. enjoyably different. nice to read before I start work on this November morning, thanks. 🙂