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Adelaide B. Shaw

A New Season

Rain all night. A honky-tonk piano on the gutter. A ticking clock on the window. The beating of drummer boys on the porch roof.

At dawn, a gray light, changing little as the day advances. It is a pleasant day for all its dullness, a muted and quiet day.

another birthday—
autumn arrives
with the rain

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