Holly and Oak

The first leaves burnish
under late September warmth,

already the tattered flayed canopy
is shot through with sun spears,

laser fine straight
showerhead piercing
the mute gold shadows,

a last hussar of light
charges the lifeless underbrush
the crown falls.

© Graham Sherwood 09/2017

Mabon

In this peculiar dimmed copper dawn

the matins bell plays messenger

to the first ferreting fingers

of October's spying chill.

Terracotta pots unwatered, light,

totter and topple to worry whine

back and forth and back

against uneven riven slabs.

Laxton windfalls, squandered

like snookered reds are

poked by autumn gusts, to

scatter searching safety.

Here the peaceful rhythm changes, as

summer's calming croon cries out

then fades beneath the balladeering

snap of twigs and crackling leaves.

© Graham Sherwood 09/2017

Koan on Sound

See how sound may confer movement

on an inanimate object.

Notice how temperature may

alter a sound.

Consider then the movement

that the temperature of each season

may impart to a sound

© Graham Sherwood 09/2017

Palindromic Piddling

Strange forces horological

stir me from the warm darkness

at 3.33,

peculiarly, it was 4.14 yesterday

and bizarrely 5.05 the day before.

After peeing pondering palindromes

I shuffle back to bed

to the warm darkness at 3.43

© Graham Sherwood 09/2017