Green Hanging On
A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long. ~
e.e. cummings
Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.~
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
This is the chestnut tree.
A sentinel keeping watch
over the green.
Every year it hangs on
to a summer long forgotten
Soon it will be a skeleton
The green of its leaves
a mere memory
Today, a blizzard in Scotland,
they say
Down south we have no snow
Just the frozen certainty
of more cold to come.
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