Penn Kemp

September Light
 
Seasons have their hues: ours is sun-steeped
translucence lit from within till it brims over.

Females dun beside their bolder mates, gold-
finch cross the sky in graceful loops of liquid

flight and song, sway on green fronds that bow
under light weight to the doctrine of signatures.

River carp leap and fall, rippling circles the stream.
Like calls to like through bright air before sunset.

Goldenrod scimitars flash solid arabesques of late
summer, late afternoon, late in our lives for such

luminous entrance.

*An early version is published in goddesspages.co.uk

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Contributor Bio

One of Canada's most active performance poets, Penn Kemp has attracted enthusiastic audiences worldwide with her unique delivery. Since 1966, she has given readings and workshops across N. America, Brazil, India and Britain. Among her publications are twenty-five books of poetry and drama as well as fiction. A prolific artist, she has to date had six video-poems produced and ten CDs available in book/cd combinations from Pendas Productions in both new and reprinted editions. More info about Penn can be found online at http://mytown.ca/pennkemp.  She is Writer-in-Residence at the University of Western Ontario.