late song

Pastoral October Talk

There is less daylight these days,
it is also noticeably cooler.
The leaves are almost all down
and will have to be raked
into heaps.

Somehow I can't translate my experiences
into insights
and explanations.

I'm going to be
fifty soon, and work
is getting harder.
Let me put it this way:
I need more time
before I am ready for
the long winter.

-Horst Ludwig
Minnesota Months

this is from a collection of poems that has been floating around my cell
for years
i never quite get to them but when i do i am struck
by the simplicity and straightforwardness of the words
the poems are also printed in japanese
and i would be curious to know if there is a way for me
to type in japanese even if i don't know it
could i learn japanese braille
and then write poems based on braille learned idioms

i haven't the foggiest idea who horst ludwig is
but here's one of his poems
and it is timely if a little late by the calendar