Sugar Gift of Autumn's Hips

The sun persuaded the earth to move

and slip, 
                slip, 
                       slip from her summer groove

as we climbed to the top of the autumn trees

and swayed with the sway of the orange breeze

He held in his hand a bouquet of leaves

all crackled in crimson he gave them to me

      Their scent lingers still on nostalgia's page

               for I laid them to rest,  as the season's sage...
Copyright © | Year Posted 2006

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