root vegetables
(with all of their warts
and nodules) fatten,
and the din
of another great
geese migration quickens,
and the leaves,
which once were the green
of an ancient sea,
turn reference-book-brown
and spoiled-tapioca-
pudding-yellow;
so too, then,
does the feeling
that we
have been grieving—
so hard,
so incessantly,
for what must
have been months, but
what feels now
like centuries—begin
to mercifully
thicken
and mellow.
