Poetry
SUMMER 2025[at the end]
by KAREN EARLE
at the end
again autumn
rusts to rusted
garden acid-yellow
red-scar sunrise
morning
blues me
a forest
aching after
oak-leather
leaves
leaving
whatever stays
not the bee
deep in nectar
not the dew-
stained spider
not birch spires
or pliant sedges
not even that
woodpecker
hammering
its dirge
Grey-crowned Crane by Ted Smith
Karen Earle
Karen Earle is a poet whose work has appeared in various journals, including: The G W Review, Chaffin Journal, Chaminade, Denver Quarterly, Hudson Valley Echoes, Sugar House Review, Clade Song, and in Tupelo Press’s The Last Millweed Anthology. She was awarded a Martha’s Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing fellowship and has attended several Colrain Poetry Conferences. She earned an MFA in Poetry from University of Massachusetts/Amherst and was director of the writing lab at Bryn Mawr Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research. She is a psychotherapist in private practice and lives in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts.