Autumn Arrived 

You arrived like a heavy whisper on the shoulder, 

laden with glass boxes where you keep the sun’s last sighs. 

The air is now a fabric of worn silk, 

unraveling in hands that still seek the warmth of the shade. 

The trees are old men shedding their golden garments, 

leaving their wooden bones exposed to the wind. 

Each falling leaf is a letter without a destination, 

written in amber ink on the paper of life. 

The sky has become a frozen lake from above, 

where stone clouds swim in profound silence. 

And the earth opens its arms like a weary mother, 

embracing what time decided to leave behind. 

In the city’s corners, the cold is a solitary musician, 

playing vaporous melodies on the fogged windows. 

You arrived without knocking, 

to turn each breath into a white cloud that vanishes into infinity.

GRACIELA NOEMI VILLAVERDE is a writer and poet from Concepción del Uruguay (Entre Rios) Argentina, based in Buenos Aires She graduated in letters and is the author of seven books of poetry, awarded several times worldwide. She works as the World Manager of Educational and Social Projects of the Hispanic World Union of Writers and is the UHE World Honorary President of the same institution’s Activa de la Sade, Argentine Society of Writers. She is the Commissioner of Honor in the executive cabinet in the Educational and Social Relations Division of the UNACCC South America – Argentina Chapter.