Late Blooms Honorable Mention: Marjorie Manwaring

 

 

Burrow back down.

Your work in the dark is not done.

 

Because the autumn was not nothing

but gathering

 

and digging

you've still got seeds

 

and roots to gnaw and swallow.

What's the hurry?

 

You hibernators.

So lucky.

 

Months of no distractions from the moon.

The strange dreams of slowed

 

metabolism and knowing when

to look at shadows.