a world of octobers

Written By Linda Crate

when i grew up

i read many books,

always saw pieces

of myself in each one;

but i think i saw myself most

in anne of anne of green gables:

a spirited girl who always spoke

her mind—

grateful for a world she lived in

having octobers,

and october has always been

my favorite month and autumn my

favorite season;

there’s just something beautiful about

autumn, i’ve seen her described as a second

spring;

it is here where i grow into my truest self

finding comfort in the coziness of

sweaters and long skirts and the warmth

of the sun that doesn’t scorch like summer.

 

Inspired by:

Anne of Green Gables (1908) by Lucy Maud Montgomery & novel. 

Linda Crate


 Linda M. Crate (she/her) is a Pennsylvanian writer whose poetry, short stories, articles, and reviews have been published in a myriad of magazines both online and in print. She has twelve published chapbooks: A Mermaid Crashing Into Dawn (Fowlpox Press - June 2013), Less Than A Man (The Camel Saloon - January 2014), If Tomorrow Never Comes (Scars Publications, August 2016), My Wings Were Made to Fly (Flutter Press, September 2017),  splintered with terror (Scars Publications, January 2018), More Than Bone Music (Clare Songbirds Publishing House, March 2019), the samurai (Yellow Arrowing Publishing, October 2020), Follow the Black Raven (Alien Buddha Publishing, July 2021), Unleashing the Archers (Guerilla Genesis Press, August 2021), Hecate's Child (Alien Buddha Publishing, November 2021), fat & pretty (Dancing Girl Press, June 2022), and searching stained glass windows for an answer (Alien Buddha Publishing, December 2023) Linda also has four micro-chapbooks published Heaven Instead (Origami Poems Project, May 2018), moon mother (Origami Poems Project, March 2020), & so I believe (Origami Poems Project, April 2021), and autumn was my savior (October 2023). She is also the author of the novella Mates (Alien Buddha Publishing, March 2022) and the second book of the series Managing Magic (Alien Buddha Press, September 2022) . Her debut book of photography Songs of the Creek (Alien Buddha Publishing, April 2023) was recently published.

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