With another winter pushing out Summer before Autumn has taken the trees the snow settles Sessions Peaks before the changing of the leaves I wonder at the loss. Why can't I have an Autumn this year? The pumpkins are turning on the dying vine Tomatoes burdened with green fruit wilt beneath the first frost I dream of leaves the colors of sunset of cider and horse drawn wagons of hay of crisp mornings and pleasant afternoons not of shoveling the driveway as the first flakes fall on green lawns -T. Gene Davis |