Leaves poem

Leaves

(A poem in response to page 171)

 

A man looks up through the leaves

Shaken by the night sky

Which looked suddenly peculiar to him

 

A dark figure can be faintly seen,

 Through those vague trees

Coming closer and closer

 

Sharp shots were heard

But nothing was thought about them

But, an instinct brought someone home

 

But those leaves were

Spinning in a whirlwind

An empty mattress floating by,

The yellowing leaves keep twirling

Led by the small flurry of wind

Blowing carelessly on the lifeless pool

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Beth Herdmann