Fall Setting

Through the northern fall
morning darkness
The second floor bedroom lights
Sunset with slipper shuffles
Down to first floor lights
Glinting off breakfast coffee
A warm dark starting
Inside a chill that surrounds
Chill heard loudly
In wave-crashing winds
Surfing rhythmically
through once-leaved branches
Another sunset
Bright sunglow leaves
Under night’s darkness
Sink from tree to earth
Dawn comes soon
Winter joins on its heels
But spring is prepared