AUDREY COLASANTI

FALL/WINTER 2021 ISSUE #03 POET

AUDREY COLASANTI has been a closet-poet until recently, writing often but not confidant enough to submit her work for review. Under the encouragement and tutelage of poet Danez Smith, Colasanti has finished a much-anticipated manuscript, which will be published by The Black Spring Press Group/UK in 2022. 

SEASON’S END

All around, the grasses sway copper and flax,

warm and honeyed; a thousand phantom 

cicadas zither their wings in vibrating 

song. The tips of the nodding sedge have turned

pink, the timothy and heather to pewter

and tin. The air, filled with the scent of dust 

rising, sticky in the heat. Grasshoppers dart 

across bristly plumes, clicking their heels—

the rhythmic hum and buzz of summer’s end—

bees and bees sucking at the triumph of it all.