Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Autumn Song


winding roads
upstate
lead to leaf peeping
and bright orange pumpkins
tumbling on wagons
apples, crisp
their juice on my chin
a rotten carpet beneath the trees
sticky sweet
bees, drunk and
slow-moving
thick mugs of coffee
on the sidelines
of a soccer game
wooly scarves
and cozy wristlets
football
frantic squirrels
filtered sunlight
casseroles of acorn squash,
eggplant, butternut
the last tomatoes, bittersweet
Concord grapes
as dark as a bruise
multicolored rubber rain boots
flannel pjs
extra blankets
small noses runny and red
hikes in bare woods
carpets of leaves underneath
burnt sienna
raw umber
chestnut
scarlet
deep sleep
breath like a phantom
each morning
time slows
dusk comes early
nature stills
hibernates
makes us wait
makes us wait

ATW, 2009

2 comments:

kristen said...

love your poem, love this photo and i can't wait until we can make art together again! xo

Steph said...

~Swoon~
xo