Emily E Hancock
Poet, letterpress printer, and small press publisher in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, on Monacan Indian Nation land.
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End of September (opens the original)
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End of SeptemberText within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedwhat's your hurry the light is not yet gone though the sun has foreshadowed Humpback Mountain, fallen out of sight we're still here, watching all the small endings three poplar leaves set sail, make landfall in bronze grass; wrens insist to roost under a moon already half-west we'll follow all in good time no hurry yet <a class="ima
Fall (opens the original)
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~FallThis is the season of letting go.This is the moment to walk throughopen fields, openingthe small fist of the heart,like the poplar trees have doneand the milkweedwho hold nothing backfrom the great silence, but gesturewith every seed, every leaftheir Yes, and It is time,and Amen.~<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JQCw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpub
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~Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedclouds are keeping close to the slate-grey mountains a flock of geese slips through the misty-between if longing could be seen, it would be that thin ribbon of pale sky awaiting those wings ~<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7GK6!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe
[things always fall] (opens the original)
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~things alwaysfallyesterdaythe first yellowed leavesmockernutsagainst the bird feeder’s bellcrash of ash branch,beetle-boredsmoke before rain,just as ancestors saida cuckoo’s hollow rattleat the pivot of noonriverand the river stonesmountainand its shadownight~From Cairns by Emily Hancock (St Brigid Press, 2019)<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcd
The Field (opens the original)
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The FieldA green-teeming bayrolls against a reef of hillswhere poplars rise thick andfrothed with windin late-August light.A thousand livesroot or walk or wing their waythrough every square footof this vastness, wellingfrom red earth and thenloaming it againwith a thousand deaths.In places, stones breachthe deep silk currentsof grass, or
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