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Magazine Parting WordsCulture

Ochre and Blue

By Chase Twichell

Fall 2011

Waking to ochre birch leaves
sinking in the blue undersea of dawn,

I swim in the same currents,
needing nothing.

Later I’ll forget this,
and mourn the end of autumn.

What’s left to be said
about being human?

Chase Twichell is a poet whose most recent book of poetry is The Snow Watcher (Ontario Review Press). In 1999 she left her teaching position at Princeton University to start Ausable Press, which publishes contemporary poetry.