The Fall
There was a man who found two leaves and came indoors holding them out saying to his parents that he was a tree.
To which they said then go into the yard and do not grow in the living-room as your roots may ruin the carpet.
He said I was fooling I am not a tree and he dropped his leaves.
But his parents said look it is fall.
- Russell Edson, collected in The Tunnel: Selected Poems of Russell Edson
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The Believer has a great piece on Edson’s prose poems: “Why the Reader of Good Prose Poems is Never Sad: An Appreciation of Russell Edson”
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