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Web update! 07/21/2010  

Due to the forces of Mother Nature, selection and production of The Poet's Domain and In Good Company have been delayed. Submissions, files, computers, and publisher have been relocated and are in the process of prioritizing tasks.

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Call for poetry submissions for volume 26
The Poet's Domain

Closed for 2010

The Burning of the Leaves

by Laurence Binyon

Now is the time for the burning of the leaves,
They go to the fire; the nostrils prick with smoke
Wandering slowly into the weeping mist.
Brittle and blotched, ragged and rotten sheaves!
A flame seizes the smouldering ruin, and bites
On stubborn stalks that crackle as they resist.
The last hollyhock’s fallen tower is dust:
All the spices of June are a bitter reek,
All the extravagant riches spent and mean.
All burns! the reddest rose is a ghost.
Spark whirl up, to expire in the mist: the wild
Fingers of fire are making corruption clean.
Now is the time for stripping the spirit bare,
Time for the burning of days ended and done,
Idle solace of things that have gone before,
Rootless hope and fruitless desire are there:
Let them go to the fire with never a look behind.
That world that was ours is a world that is ours no more.
They will come again, the leaf and the flower, to arise
From squalor of rottenness into the old splendour,
And magical scents to a wondering memory bring;
The same glory, to shine upon different eyes.
Earth cares for her own ruins, naught for ours.
Nothing is certain, only the certain spring.

Volume 25 is available

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Short story submissions for volume eight are now closed.

Featured Author: Doris Gwaltney

Volume seven,  In Good Company is available