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Dear Indy,

A few days ago Mirror Indy did a call out for photos of foliage. After seeing what readers sent, we imagined a poet might have something to say, so we commissioned writer Autumn Pryor to create something for the moment.

Here’s what she wrote:


Aubade for Turning Leaves

It’s 81 degrees on October 28th

I had to remove my sweater in the voting line

nothing will ever be as it was

except the leaves turning

marigold, umber, auburn,

orange as the slumping pumpkins

on countless porches and stoops

which will be food for weevils and flies

which will be food for sparrows

lingering in the heat

gone by first frost

back again to sing their morningsong

calling us outside to see the leaves

now a million emeralds just above our heads


— Autumn Pryor, Indianapolis poet


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