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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