FALL

Befall

Smell fall

Taste it

See leaves fall

Hear them russel

Here them tussle as the

Wind hustles to rearrange

All

like drifting brown snow

hear fall as squealing kids jump pell mell

Into leaf piles

Where have all the tweets, croaks and cricket sounds gone? An occasional coyote or wolf howls. The full moon feels colder, breath visible.

Fall is the shedding

In preparation for new

Yet it’s our winter

We first much come through.

Squirrels scamper round

Hiding their nuts

Squirrel nests appear

Out of nowhere

high in the trees

Bears busy fattening up

For long winter’s naps raid what’s left out

Where do the birds go?

I know my cardinals

Hang around all year

Huddled in cedars

Shivering

With me.

Fall?

Break a hip

Old man

And your Winter’s

Just round the corner

Spring has the resiliency of youth!

Winter is the end

But you many have

many falls before that

So let’s add some

Cheer Holliday and Beer

In the Fall

Cheers!

tom tenbrunsel

Poet Laureate of the Fall

Author’s Note: in which season did the Original Sin occur 🙄