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October Light

BY. LYNN MARTIN

quality of light has changed. The

morning sun looks ornamental,
without warmth. The cold, clear light of
autumn, when every leaf stands out as if
to etch itself on memory, is not far away.
In the night sky, the big dipper hangs,
upright and full, already thinking of
turning over, emptying itself of summer.

Walkingpthrough the woods, the
green has changed, it seems overnight,
from deep and lush to faded and limp.

_ Pine needles, golden and russet, litter
the paths, suddenly dominant. “Drink
your tea,” orders the Towhee. The Blue

‘Jay echoes with “Do it. Do it,” but only
the Blue Jay has a permanent sound.
The Towhee seems to be thi.nking of
other things. Light seeps from leaf to
leaf in the gathering afternoon. Dark-
ness creeps up on you silently, not like
in summer when light and dark leaped
and cavorted in rushes of wind.

Is the clarity of light more pro-
nounced because I am no longer young?
Is this the time of life when reaching
toward the sky, I begin to level out, and
can’t quite fly so high against the pull of
gravity? My children’s voices have lev-
eled out to an adult’s timbre. The -sound
of the four-year-old in my arms is only a
memory.

Sometimes, in my dreams, the light
etches every face I have known, those
who no longer walk with me in summer, skin aglow with a reflecting light, called life. What, I wonder,
is the source of that life that burns with such intensity, ebbs, and then appears to go out? Where does
such light go? I imagine turning a corner unexpectedly some day. The light will be so bright I will
know everything I have been trying to learn inch by painful inch. 1 will add my own light, and what
was a bare flicker will now be a sun that never goes out.V‘

I t is early October, but already the

5 Lynn Martin observes the change in seasons from her home in Brattleboro.

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The Word
“Lambda”

The eleventh letter of the Greek alphabet,
lambda is also the symbol of kinetic energy,
reports Kathy Beige of Lesbian Life (on the
Web at about.con1/people).

Kathy says: “The lambda has been used
as a symbol of gay pride and identification
since the 19705. The Gay Activists Alliance
first used the lambda as a symbol of the en-
ergi of the gay/lesbian movement."V