summer leaves fall
but petals always bloom,
in memory
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tiny hydrangea flowers
hide among raspberry leaves,
like autumn-hued beacons
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Thankful for art and music,
for time with my family,
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Goodbye water lilies, maples leaves, loosestrife and reed,
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Like cicadas at summer’s end,
a fairy queen’s shell lingers, iridescent, glowing,
with traces of sleeping magic.
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how many generations
sky gazed through ancient branches,
before the Napa fires
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braving the thorns
to get to the sweet, red heart
like bears do
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reverie on a hillside,
oh to be a silver birch
warm in summer sun
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autumn blooms,
each petal a love note
to seed-stars
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