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First Day of Autumn

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John Martucci

Friday, October 21, 2016

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It's nice to feel an air conditioned day,

Nature's changing thermostat

set just where I like.

Leaves on the trees disagree:

some are red with anger

that Mother Nature turned off the heat,

some are yellow with fear

for the coming chill of winter,

and some have fainted dead away,

lying on the ground.

(9/22/16 JM)

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John Martucci

After 20 or so years of co-writing songs with my poet friend Mike Jurkovic, I started going to poetry readings and decided to try my hand at it. I finally worked up the courage to read my own work. So far, no tomatoes have flown my way. I consider that a promising start. I've been published in the CAPS Anthology (2015) and Waymark-Voices of the Valley Magazine.