Fall, my favorite season

Fires chlorophyllous, riotous,

Swirling as kids rustle about

Hiding in leaves. 

Familial conscripts raking  

Chafing against Sisyphean task

Hedges color snared 

Trees haltingly immodest. 

Trick or Treat 

The hobgoblins innocent plaint

Mercantile pumpkin spice, cloying sweet

Radiators pinging in the night. 

Attic exchange

Swapping old clothes 

For the cold new time’s

Pneumonias, grippes, and threats.

As graciously surrendered life 

Trampled underfoot

Is taken for granted 

It does not have to come again. 

The Goth’s solstice snark

“This is when everything dies!” 

That’s always been 

But joy’s remainder persists through snows.

Beauty in loss

The gnarled maple majestic 

The last to denude

Whispers dormant resurrection. 

Numbered days these are

The cycles long for some, others short

Go out and play

In the season of fire. 

Savor cider, sweatered moments

First frosts and burning piles 

The hour’s retreat, harvest fruits

The star’s early dive. 

Sundial shadows stretch 

Marking time gravity bent

Ordinary yet Eternal 

Carried away are we.

Listen. Are you listening? 

The world remorselessly spins

Taking no account of sin

But with each turn

It does it all over again. 

No matter money or fame

All consigned to time’s flame

Swirling, riotous, it consumes all

So goeth before the fall. 

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