Poetry

Now They’re Gone

It starts as a visual thing; first you watch, then a feeling intervenes: puffs of colour dust the hillsides, brief explosions that don’t subside when their first bursts strike into your field of vision. Not trees but primaries: they wrap the side of a house, overlap one another in bright shocks of red, redder, pure pillar box. Forget the trees, only colours seize the mind. When leaves change from green to red our souls ache with longing—for what? Who would know? Transient as the air we breathe, feelings wash through us and leave as though they never meant to stay.…

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