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Poetry: The Fringes of Fall

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"Restful Moments Beneath the Golden Canopy" 
 by Catarina C.

The Fringes of Fall

by Erin Yoo

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Traversing the acme of assembly line

Of commercialized pumpkin patches,

Of manufactured masquerades,

A rusty rhinestone of fall fanatics –

 

There trods along multitudes of

Grey-donned masks of monotone hue,

Clad by sojourners of the grey, waveless sea,

Between frisky spring and frigid winter

The grey area with tempestuous temperatures

 

With no leaves, felled like fallen timbers

No leaves, intact yet liable to crinkle at the slightest crunch

No leaves of viridescent chlorophyll color

Nary a wearied spot or tear from the worn soles of rusty boots

Nary a trepidation of laughing leaf

Nary a scintillation of sage light

 

Across dynamic vistas of disillusioned fields

Of uncanny, echoing equilibrium

Lies an ostracized o’clock scarecrow

Possessing a moldering pumpkin than a straw-filled, callow cranium

Galvanizing sentiments more akin to bittersweet than any salubrious fear

Lies a bequeathed entity of vapidness stranded in a dry sea of burnt grain

 

Perching from the mountainous peak

Of a multifaceted panorama teeming with Halloween paper machetes

Stands a slight figure of billowing sheets reminiscent of nonexistent ectoplasm

Hello, Halloween

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About the author

Editor in Chief & Founder

Erin's work has been recognized by several prestigious awards, including the Scholastic Arts & Writing Awards, the National High School Poetry Contest Topical Winner, the Young Georgia Authors Writing Competition, the Illustrated Poem Contest in the Southwest Georgia Section of the American Chemistry Society (ACS), Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Essay & Poetry Program, and the Essays on Technology Event organized by the Technology Student Association (TSA) State Conference. Her recent poems have been published in Teen Ink Magazine. I serve as a Junior Board Member and Senior Editor at the Polyphony Lit Magazine, as Chief Print Edition Officer, and on the Writing/Editing Team in The Scientific Teen Magazine.

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