I was in a bit of a dark mood when I wrote this

"Fall"

the leaves coagulate

red to maroon

sputter

  flutter

  drip

        down

    down

        down

 

Autumn smiles

in wicked glee

through stained red

clouds: stretching teeth

across the horizon

as she sets the trees on fire

and watches the cinders

trickle down in heaps

 

skeletal branches

reach towards the sky

in frozen shock;

Winter will show them

no empathy

and their tears will freeze

to their mournful fingers

 

the charred corpses

pile up sporadically:

burning entrails

crackling crimson

until they are lost

to Autumn's sneering

smiling sky.

 

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