November
Rent from DeepDyve- November
neighboring tree finally silentits keeper out there every day rakingeven before yellow bursts fadedjust to stay on top of the sheer mass of leavesbagging them long before we didours falling to meet wet layersneglected drifts in the gardentonight after we arguedI went looking for the deepest swellplunged my hands to the slick bottomto make cold fists of humusand box the dead matter [End Page 20]
Lyall Harris is a book artist and writer. In the United States, her book art is held in over fifty special collection libraries at such institutions as Yale, Stanford, Berkeley, University of Washington, and National Museum of Women in the Arts. Her poetry has appeared in the New Guard, Prose Poem Project, and Pure Francis, among others. Her recent book art titles include White Privilege Likes (2018) and Nature Nurture (2018). She partnered with Patricia Silva to create the text-based installation The Interpreted Object (2018) at Cartavetra Gallery in Florence, Italy, as part of the sixteenth annual international poetry festival Voci Lontane Voci Sorelle.
