Happy October! ...and new poem

Probably my favorite month of the year...and here's a "new" poem I've been working on recently:


The greens are
tired; hot's not
what it was, and
tawny skippers dip and
quiver on their gathering,
swan-song way;
short-lived things and
things with little life
yet left surround me:
but this is exuberant
dying: an exquisite
death that sparkles,
spins, and toasts its
own demise of
innonence.



(c) P. Timothy Gierschick II