FALL MEMORIES

Fall memories
jostle like leaves

or first snowflakes
floating under roofs

as a minor bird
in trees shadow us

awakens a still life poet
hymning by his studio

watches the moon's path
from his window pane

over his phlox visit
to the rock garden

his words emerge
later in his art folio

darkness as transparency
on a winged branch

as if time stopped
at the village inn

by the harvest fields
of blackberries.