The last living leaves
Put their affairs in order
And jump into Fall
Friday haiku 108
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The last living leaves
Put their affairs in order
And jump into Fall
If water is life
The sky is immortal
Sigh the trees, fading.
A cool summer breeze
Brings fall overnight
Betrayal!
The trees, exhausted
abandon their leaves
to the crowing wind
Don’t look for wild geese
to lift the darkening sky
That inner burning
that leaves you spent
will also light your way home
In the antique shop
on the ground floor
of the building
where my parents lived
the year they married
I thought I heard someone
call my name
as if I lived there
too, so long before
my birth in the camp.