AUTUMN

A red maple leaf

Glued to the road

By yesterday’s rain

High winds

Would not remove

But reworked the beach

Birds gathering to migrate

I think nature is

Marvelous

Never predictable

Always accepted

Always wonder

A porcupine

Climbs a tree

To avoid me

It is a large creature

Resembled

A miniature sloth

Made it up the tree

I lost sight of it

But nature knows

Survival is instinctive

Equilibrium exists

There is a balance

Live and let live

An old adage

Still has validity

Summer will bow

Change is peaceful

We could learn

We should learn

Maye we will

Let us hope

Stanski

September 18, 2020 ^