Tatters
Fall tatters the body of summer
with endless flaking, leaves drifting
like dandruff, eyelash, fingernail
the replicable cells, dura, cambium
petals on the stem in August
and in the culvert beside the freeway
by November, Fall picks us clean,
sends us naked into winter.
Fall tatters the body of summer
with endless flaking, leaves drifting
like dandruff, eyelash, fingernail
the replicable cells, dura, cambium
petals on the stem in August
and in the culvert beside the freeway
by November, Fall picks us clean,
sends us naked into winter.