Autumn Stories

(a companion-piece to my poem "Slight Effort")* * * * * * *A good girl free from sin may roamwild as a deer ’mong moldy stonesand fear not the corpse’s clammy clutchbursting through the moistened muck-- Why, just as I approached the carintent to fetch the camerathere lurched, then froze, some furry creature--possum, rat, mole, hedgehog, beaver-- A ginormous thing! Then it unfrozeand dropped down, instant, by its noseinto...

As the seasons change I think of you.Has it really been this long so much time as passed?Thoughts swirling around in my mind like the leaves in the wind.Those colorful autumn leaves will never look the same to me.When I see them your face is all I will see. A melancholy ach spreading through everything.A spark of joy for the rare discovery made.A stab of pain for the loss of the desired.Crisp and cool like the morning air...