Pruning
Come, Autumn!
Nature's jeweled daughter,
fade youth's dew to wisdom's dry preserve.
Reveal to love, what fleeting beauty now lays bare.
Branches, aligning like stretch marks
into a silhouette
without flaw.
Come, Autumn!
Nature's jeweled daughter,
fade youth's dew to wisdom's dry preserve.
Reveal to love, what fleeting beauty now lays bare.
Branches, aligning like stretch marks
into a silhouette
without flaw.