When The Leaves Leave

As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done - Thoreau

a brisk, chilly breeze

blows spent, flecked, autumnal leaves

would you rake them, please?

Author's Note

“It is pleasant to walk over the beds of these fresh, crisp, and rustling leaves. How beautifully they go to their graves! how gently lay themselves down and turn to mold - painted of a thousand hues, and fit to make the beds of us living. So they troop to their last resting-place, light and frisky. They put on no weeds, but merrily they go scampering over the earth, selecting the spot, choosing a lot, ordering no iron fence, whispering all through the woods about it, -some choosing the spot where the bodies of men are moldering beneath, and meeting them half-way.” - Thoreau