Autumn Hide and Seek

Moisture on the leaves;
Sunlight on the shiny road--
Shifting September day.









Bright vermilion leaves
Lie with a grass canopy
On a dark brown bed.

Falling from the sky
Leaf is trapped in tiny blooms;
Temporary rest.

Leaves are floating down
They make no sound as they fall;
Rain patters in woods.

Sunlight patch ahead--
Grass glows like a green beacon,
Then slowly grows dim.

Peekaboo sunlight;
Peekaboo gray cloud cover:
Autumn hide and seek.












Brown leaves in white shroud
Hang suspended in the tree--
Thousand silent mouths.












Twisting around wire
Poison ivy grows higher--
Green and rusted brown.