Tuesday, September 18, 2012

leaf

a leaf on the sidewalk catches my eye; i walk on.
stop.
go back; pick it up.
sunny-side-up yellow,
turns to spring-grass-green,
turns to compost-dirt-black.
the story of a life, in a leaf.

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Happy Birthday to my second-born today. Here is a small stone I wrote about him.

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