November 2021
Bio Note: I am a writer and teacher who currently serves on the Board of Directors for Alaska Writers Guild and The Poetry Society of New Hampshire (PSNH). I recently took on the role of Editor in Chief for The Poets' Touchstone, a PSNH publication, and I also read poetry for Chestnut Review. In August of 2021, I published my first collection of short fiction, The Birthday Picture: and Other Stories, through Red Sweater Press, which I founded in 2019.
Insight (a golden shovel)
after Zbigniew Herbert’s “The Envoy of Mr. Cogito”
What more could autumn be
than an aide to the vigilant—
looking for the leafless moment when
decision takes an amber turn, and the
sun gilds the heart with its light?
As September drizzles on,
wind blows and grows gaps in the
branches, exposing mountains
love cannot climb. October gives
us nothing but its days, the
darkness time’s only sign—
when the streaking Leonids arise,
wield your axe by the glow, and
through winter’s portal go.
©2021 Caitlin M. S. Buxbaum
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