New Hampshire Foliage – Image from pinterest.com
oh what glorious endings
for lifetimes well-lived
a reward and a warning
of leaves in their turning
spectacular aide-mémoire
painted with earthfire palette
reminding gray bones
in bark creased with old age
that the best and the worst
and the all of green seasons
concede to intrinsic
autumnal propensities
give themselves over to
color and curl before
wind-tugged release
sends them fluttering down
come to rest upon loaming
where landscapes of memory
humbly stand wake
Poesy plus Polemics 