They Walked Until Autumn

By Paul Mason Leiby, Jr

"They Walked Until Autumn" is P. M. Leiby's fourth book of poetry, preceded by "The Mean Doors," "Goodbye, The Unused Portion of Hello," and "A Boy Swept Under the Rug." P. M. Leiby brings to bear a love of life and death encoded in the social and mental struggles. He holds an M.S. in psychology from Purdue University.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Paul Mason Leiby, Jr
• Release date: Oct 11, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005462963

Paul Mason Leiby, Jr

Paul Mason Leiby Jr is the author of nine experimental poetry books: "Lofi My Life," "Sleeping Every Sycamore Standing," "How the Bakery Pronounces Drab," "Of the Body Air," "They Walked Until Autumn," "Goodbye, the Unused Portion Hello," and others. P. M. Leiby brings to bear a love of life and death encoded in the social and mental struggles. He holds an M.S. in psychology from Purdue University.

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They Walked Until Autumn

Paul Mason Leiby Jr

Copyright © 9/1/2022 Paul Mason Leiby Jr

All rights reserved.

DEDICATed to

Shagufta and family,

and my family

CONTENTS

Cemetery

Rich of Birds

Out of Body

October Soil

Where the Stones Huddle Together

Asylum Hill

Hexenkopf

Horror Post Prehistory

Out of the Dirt

At the Body of Your Henge

Night of the Dead Living

No Such Thing as Funerals

Ergo Doom

House on the Half Hill

The Mind is Not User Friendly

Falconer’s Hill

Beneath the Juniper

Amorphous Hair

Standing on the Sun

Not Socializing

Itch Caved Heart

Wretched

Irony Our Outright

Depersonalization

We Walked Until Autumn

Cemetery

Prehistoric angels wafting by the vault ground-going,

growing-pains catacomb night deep and wide bearing,

peril faced dirt happy as interment,

flower hungry by the look of their skin.

Some stroll past the blank check air of it

stone after stone due for memories

or looking deep for reading the eyes of stars

that haven’t burned city wide,

or to progress into uncertainty,

or to search for a moment in caved-in mines of afterlife.