Ultimate Sunset
Ultimate Sunset
by Michael R. Burch
for my father, Paul Ray Burch, Jr.
he now faces the Ultimate Sunset,
his body like the leaves that fray as they dry,
shedding their vital fluids (who knows why?)
till they’ve become even lighter than the covering sky,
ready to fly ...
Keywords/Tags: sky, sunset, autumn, leaves, leaving, dry, fraying, shedding, fluids, death, cling, clinging, wind, flight, fly, flying, transport, free fall, liftoff, departure, bare, barren, leafless, skeletal, light
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