Thursday, July 30, 2009

November Leaves


Photograph by Darren Hester


November Leaves


The trees are a thick
ochre wash.

Chamber violins
& trumpets
announce
Baroque leaves
that swarm
the wet ground
this overcast afternoon.

From time to time
red oak blood
scatters
a small herd
of yellow leaves.

A new violin,
sadder than its chamber sisters,
outlines
the gradual descent
of one crisp, brown
leaf.


Alan Britt

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