autumn (october artist remix)

autumn † i speak this poem now with grave and level voice in praise of autumn, of the far-horn-winding fall i praise the flower-barren fields, the clouds, the tall unanswering branches where the wind makes sullen noise i praise the fall : it is the human season : now : no more the foreign sun does meddle at our earth enforce the green and bring the fallow land to birth nor winter yet weigh all with silence the pine bough but now in autumn with the black and outcast crows share we the spacious world : the whispering year is gone there is more room to live now : the once secret dawn comes late by daylight and the dark unguarded goes between the mutinous brave burning of the leaves and winter’s covering of our hearts with his deep snow we are alone : there are no evening birds : we know the naked moon : the tame stars circle at our eaves it is the human season : on this sterile air do words outcarry breath : the sound goes on and on i hear a dead man’s cry from autumn long since gone i cry to you beyond upon this bitter air ~ † archibald macleish, "immortal autumn" new found land, fourteen poems. houghton mifflin, new york : 1930 illustration by a.i.r. & rjh & chat-gpt 6 astra (light) remix of "October Artist Remix Challenge" https://suno.com/song/6b004ac2-c401-449a-8c55-2003e08a0137 special thanks to 𝒜.𝐼. 𝑅𝑜𝒸𝓀𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓇'𝟩𝟤, once again, for soundtrack, inspiration, et al ... 🙏 nb : the link above is properly to the 'october artist remix challenge' and not to 'trick or treats' ... too much A, not enough I ... sigh ...