warrior

all hallows' eve

i choose to dress

as a warrior

left

nothing left

but sunday morning

october storm

abandoned

abandoned farm

walking into

the scent of you

colorless

firebreak

the

colorless

sound

from

the

other

side

deep

the deep curve

of an old man's back

river grass 

sunrise

sunrise

and flowers blooming

on the table

daydream

daydream

a river ripples

through it

sweetgum

my footsteps

down to the bones

sweetgum balls

wind

one way

or the other

autumn wind

just

just a squirrel

burying a pine seed

afternoon heat

calmed

calmed

by the riverbank

drifting wood

touch

river twilight

a tiny crab touches

every shadow

ashes

after

the

storm

the

sameness

of

ashes

blood

hunting season the maple's blood red

flow

chainsaw

hearing the river flow

afterward

inside

moonlight the owl waiting inside

jeers

one

tree

to

another

the

jeers

of

crows

all

windfall

the lotus there

all along

crow

going home

corn fields take me

the crow's way

thread

dark words thread

a herringbone sky

ravens passing 

sky

autumn twilight

the sky unsays

everything

bones

acorn bones

the sound boots make

sliding downhill

touching

tree rings

touching the year

of my birth

pearls

from mountains

pearled with dawn

sounds of crows 

grace

warm autumn breeze

nothing left of flowers

but their grace 

taken

where autumn flowers

become butterflies

the road taken