Autumn the Mentor
Autumn the mentor
Arrives, comes to
The ditch and starts
To give and dig
The hole that will be
The whole
To catapult us
Into next year.
Books continue
To be finished.
Relationships are
Put on pause
Awaiting
The eject button.
Darkness leaves
Stained glass windows
Somewhat redundant in
Sunless daytime.
Along the way
Nature gets lost and
Starts to fall asleep.
Outside of itself
The tarantella
Gets danced often and
Is still danced
Irrespective
Of its age,
The fury dominates.
Voices from couples
Extend into thin-air
Echoes
As they laugh off
The night's hypocrisy
And autumn
Remains the mentor.
Grass seems
Like leather
when dimmed by
Candles and
Imagination
Needs a little work
To adjust to the light.
Rats forage securely,
The magpies can-can
And squirrels speed
On any given leg
As the fox slinks away.
Tea cools quicker
And a craving for sweet
Things is reanimated
With childhood looking on
To the future without thought
Or blankly out of eroding
Photographs
Labelled 'holidays'.
The stadia wait for
Floodlighting,
Wait for a million
Cheers rained upon
By a seasons'
Man-made charm.
And we go home, returning
As we do to the spinning,
The flickering,
The world and images
In its trajectory.
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