Ginger Butter by Christine Jackson

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Ginger Butter
by
Christine Jackson

Sugar maple leaves

flake and crisp into shades of ginger.

Lengthening sunlight falls

across a field of corn stalk stubble.

The warm afternoon feels

like melted butter over toast

as crickets start their slow whir

into the waning August days.

Christine Jackson grew up in New England and now teaches literature and creative writing at a South Florida university. She also helps to organize writing conferences. Learn more about her at http://cahss.nova.edu/faculty/christine_jackson.html.

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