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Autumn Sound, 1918 by Alexej Jawlensky. © 2018 Long Beach Museum of Art.
79-2.7; Autumn Sound, 1918 by Alexej Jawlensky. Collection of the Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California, gift of The Milton Wichner Collection Bequest, 1979. Photograph © 2018 Long Beach Museum of Art.


 

Autumn Sound, 1918
        by Karen Holden

Smeared on my memory, like the
taste of butter after a long hunger
foreign on the tongue, thick and
heavy, bittersweet: first whiff of
mustard gas before it sears

 

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