red-tipped fescue,
red sumac, ivy,
berries and cedar bark
– even the water is red
like old blood known
in Autumn rituals –
blood as familiar
as it is foreign,
ordinarily strange
like turning leaves
red-tipped fescue,
red sumac, ivy,
berries and cedar bark
– even the water is red
like old blood known
in Autumn rituals –
blood as familiar
as it is foreign,
ordinarily strange
like turning leaves