This poem and photograph were published together in
Dredging up Demeter: An Autumn Anthology of Poetry
The darkness stakes its claim on day
Intent on taking life away.
The leaves begin asphyxiating,
Starved of light, they're suffocating.
Beholders gawk in wonderment
At gasping breaths so candescent.
Reverence earned by mutating,
Starved of light, they're suffocating.
Darkness closes its savage grip,
One by one leaves begin to slip.
On the ground they're congregating,
Starved of light, they're suffocating.
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...I can do without the UGLY winters as well...to much grey!!!