I particularly loved the ending to this Sue. Nice work.
Frank
> The History of a Yellow Leaf
>
>
> The history of a yellow leaf
> is part of me. There are things
> we do not need to learn:
> the lineage of a maple tree,
> the serpent's pedigree.
>
> The genealogy of grief
> requires no heraldry.
> We know a doom
> when streaks at dawn forecast
> impending storm, know in the bone,
> the red of alarm.
>
> Some things cannot be taught--
> the faithless lover's kiss that lingers long,
> a honey on the tongue when winter comes.
> In stinging memory, we taste the summer
> when bees are gone.
>
> Sue Scalf
>
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