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Autumn on small plots ringing the houses —

except for the few jasmines still

clothed and sparrows

hopping from one lilac bush

to another — does it really make for such a naked

moral? such a come-down? a message

of leaves behind the rusted fence

protecting us so nicely

from the eyes of the passer-by and of the neighbor

who long long ago worked in the passport office,

and from the headlights chasing leaves

like the wind, only faster faster and

maybe it’s because of this momentum

you quicken your pace