short legs
patched jeans
kicking leaves
piled to my knees
remembering color
living in sea salt pines
leaves little to imagine
of autumn rhymes
sweetgum sourwood birch
sycamore and dogwood
apple leaves beneath the plum tree
ash hickory maple and oak
mountains afire in Tennessee
eyes closed
smell of smoke-
kicking leaves
to the wind.
r ~ 9/16/14