No poem so pretty
As a yellow maple leaf
Fluttering to earth.
*****
Will you come to tea?
The kettle overboils
Hear the shrieking steam.
*****
Chattering of birds
Dispels these dark thoughts for now
Hazard a smile.
No poem so pretty
As a yellow maple leaf
Fluttering to earth.
*****
Will you come to tea?
The kettle overboils
Hear the shrieking steam.
*****
Chattering of birds
Dispels these dark thoughts for now
Hazard a smile.
No cries of sea birds
Steel, concrete, and car exhaust
New Jersey marshlands.
*****
Food loses savor
And my ribs begin to show
This anxiety.
*****
Mist shrouded tree trunks
Wet leaves glisten – fungi sprout
Early autumn damp.