October 8, 2017: Autumn, Once Again

Autumn, Once Again

It’s been two cold winters

And hot long summers

Since we celebrated

The arrival of spring

The trees now turn

the cold wind falls

setting leaves, a-chatter

a ritual rattle

I’ve made it

once again

But it’s never

quite the same

Momma don’t go

Daddy come home.

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To Kate Camfield.  December 11, 1959-October 8, 2015.

And my step-father Vernon Lyles, whom today we laid to rest. 
And, lastly, to John Lennon for the coda