Leaves Leaving

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Susan McCaslin is a prizewinning poet, author of eleven volumes of poetry, including her most recent, Demeter Goes Skydiving (University of Alberta Press, 2011). In Oct. of 2011 she published a book of essays with short poems titled Arousing the Spirit. Susan is Faculty Emeritus of Douglas College in New Westminster, B..C, where she taught English and Creative Writing for twenty-three years. She is currently living in Victoria, B.C. www.susanmccaslin.ca		© 2011 Susan McCaslin Leaves Leaving imprint their faces on the trail like prostrate Sufis after the big cosmological spin some pressed down to earth, some up to sky, kissing, such drowsy kissing oblivious to stems, the veins that brought them living water— now they lie mashed, flattened leaf of gold, melded with ground like a pastiche I made as a child when teacher had me gather leaves press them into a book, stare into their wide-open faces grown suddenly larger overnight larger than the heads of grown ups, deer, or even the imagined bear, broad-leafed maple stars sodden and trodden and longing, such mottled faces, soon to be holy dust
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