Allowances

By place9011, October 4, 2024

Trees wear seasons as we do
a row of maples along a fence
watching and learning

what each season allows
going with it, spending or withdrawing
as in these October turnings

spending allowances of earth and sun
air and water that soften, harden
heating, cooling

their outermost leaves redden first
tree-tops and ends of lower branches
outcast, their tree family disowning them

but not their greater family
earth and sunlight, air and water
reabsorb them in their origins

we their watchers
reabsorb their faces’ fluid expressions
a burst of brighter colors

signaling a shared fall sadness
what they have been we have been
beginnings, phases, passages

not yet afterthoughts but pending
a generous momentary stillness allows.

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