Tag Archives: fall

Leaf

Billowing leaf, turns into lady in waiting– alchemy of fall.

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Reap

Solid golden lean, Cottonwood’s solemn oath– bare to Winter’s reap.

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Passing

This road, for how long? Blossoms give up the ghost, fall with no dreams clinging.

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Vivaldi in Love

Spring, tender bud raising gravity in the center of a palm. Summer, drawn and quartered shafts of light mouthing the sea. Fall, fetal leaves curling in on themselves— inversion banking on faith. Winter, hospitable merger of bare limbs relishing arson … Continue reading

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Pearl

In the shadow of a stray leaf, the ribbed modeling of pearlescent light, Autumn’s plein-air portrait, in miniature, unsigned.

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How Fall Happens

Plunging climate of needles and memory, a plaited sorrow. I listen, with mute intent, for the fetal cortege of leaves, turning then falling fast into the maternal crook of an outgoing wind.

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Usher

August, its days nearly numbered, summer’s pink noiseless fade and exit (how cicadas bury their voices in hollows of silence), autumn’s fresh jags of Memory, reaping, with finite sorrow, the climate-cracked shells of seeds (how tiny birds bury their songs … Continue reading

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