Sunday, October 21, 2012

A Barn In Autumn


Questions For A Barn in Autumn

How do maples display such elegance
along a commonplace highway?

Weathered wood, so gray, 
how can such dullness push bright orange, melon, yellow to leaping brightness?

A boat, a trailer, camper, tractor, summer table -- 
why fit so perfectly beneath the majestic canopy of maples?

The back bluff, like a stiff spine,
how does it lift and hold and steady?

Autumn -- how does it stamp away the emptiness from my heart?

Copyright 2012
Wanda Hayes Eichler



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