Thursday, September 5, 2024

AUTUMN RHYTHM

Ethereal mounds
of aromatic asters:

hardly fairly compensated 
for all that they could
(but do not) say—

for still spinning 
sunlight into sugar 
all the dwindling day

without so much 
as even nodding 
at the urge 

to glance up 
at god's time clock

or whistle while they work 
to pass the hours 
faster.