Equinox
for Scott

if there’s also this kind of love then life is good then life is fortunate then life is good music and good and musical and good and if there’s also this cosmic love this knowing this kind of love then there’s also this kind of move to let love in       to let love into the world to let love in and through and over       what a difference twenty minutes makes: one minute     (rain)(rain)(rain)     the next, the sky fans through in color the next the sky fans through the silver-framed train window into watercolor mauve into peach pale and buttercup and beauty       into the coming of beauty       and if there’s also this love then this sun in the sky       this  season of my life

then the equinox
summer turns to fall and fall
fall turns to crisp love

 September 2024

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Leah Umansky is an educator, curator, collagist and  writer in New York City. She is the author of three books of poetry, most recently, Of Tyrant, (Word Works Books, 2024) and two chapbooks, Straight Away the Emptied World and the Mad-Men inspired Don Dreams and I Dream. Umansky earned her MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and has curated and hosted The COUPLET Reading Series in NYC since 2011. Her creative work has been featured on PBS, and in such places as The New York Times, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day, USA Today, POETRY, and American Poetry Review. She has taught workshops to writers of all ages in such places as The Poetry School (UK), Hudson Valley Writers Center, and Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Visible Ink Program.  She can be found @lady_bronte on twitter or @leah.umansky on IG.

Art: Kelly Cressio-Moeller, Childhood Faultlines. Mixed media: acrylic, ink, paper, mica flakes on basswood panel, 2023.