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After Herbie Hancock & Wayne Shorter How is it I imagine us older, already, and walking in autumn to this song, and we are beautiful, as we are now, beautiful as you are now, when you look at me. It is autumn, the city is quiet and not quiet as the song is, around us, kids on bikes, as we are wrapped around each other like the piano and the sax and the sudden bikes but then the quiet and the yellow leaves. My arm is through yours, my hand in your pocket and it is autumn, late afternoon. We’ve had a quiet good day of work, each, then headed out together and the song is the city we love around us together and we are older but not yet old and we are beautiful as the song.
Sarah Browning is the author of Killing Summer (Sibling Rivalry) and Whiskey in the Garden of Eden (The Word Works). Co-founder and past Executive Director of Split This Rock, the poetry and social justice organization, she now teaches with Writers in Progress. Browning received the Lillian E. Smith Award and fellowships from DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, VCCA, Yaddo, Porches, and Mesa Refuge. She holds an MFA in poetry and creative nonfiction from Rutgers Camden and lives in Philadelphia. More at sarahbrowning.net.
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