Alone on a dark porch, on a dark house, streetlight on a silent street. The candle sputters and dies. Emptiness.
Autumn Equinox
Tag: autumn
After the Sudden Death of a Cousin
The days are comfortable while the night closes in. I walk in sun-blind mornings with crippling feet and a dizzy mind. I close the blinds against the approaching dark and remind myself to count our remaining blessings as autumn provides rich colours.
Before the Cold
The intensity of autumn colours: beauty and immanent loss.
Bleak Joy
a tangle of bare, black branches
against a cloud-curdled sky:
bleak joy.
November Meeting
Grey skies
bare branches
cold enough
to keep us indoors.
Fluorescent blue light
cluttered space
silence sitting
dully waiting.
Autumn and Losses
The autumnal riot of colours begins
to fade and thin, while losses blossom.
The ghosts of neighbours open the doors
of demolished houses.
I move into winter with opening eyes
watching the leaves reveal the tree
that will die and be born again –
forming and fading and forming again.
Learning Living 