i still dream of autumn's birth, indian summer
for always, forever, the never ending autumn
where leaflets fall fluidly like rain surreptitiously
though displayed plainly for every elder to see
jacket weather, scented candles wafting by me
orange fronds, magenta leaves crumbling upon
piles of child's play strewn about ill kept lawns
were that it never ended, nor winter ever began
before the spring unfolded, after the now when
all are gathered, circled around memorial feasts...