Saturday, October 31, 2009

Spotted Leaf Day










Wearing age spots
cheerily, a Christmas
gift splotched, glistening
burning with age,
the leaf clings to the branch,
awaiting unwrapping
when it flaps to the ground.
But now it glows,
tempting like Santa's
wrapped packages
under other trees,
hung too
in red and green and gold.

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