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Why October Matters
by Arthur Dobrin
You opened a car door
One October day.
That’s why October matters.
The world opened to you
One October day.
That’s why October matters.
Until that New York night
In a car on 42nd Street
Octobers were waystations
To warm suns and beaches.
But the car door opened
And I sat beside you.
And I sat beside you
All the way to Africa,
On a hill above the Aegean,
By dusty Tucumcari,
Almost everywhere to this:
Measuring October by color,
Not the number of fallen leaves.
From Angles & Chambers by Arthur Dobrin (Cross-Cultural Communications, 1990).