hello fall i welcome you with soft loving hands spread open like your orange-tinted leaves, you sound like riding bikes up and down an old road in friendly contest with family and friends i loved, allowing myself to get buried in leaves buried in sentimentality the cement is cracked from summers wear of footprints and bike tires, wearing me and the road the same, do you remember, i learned how to drive a motorbike and feel free i had shaving cream battles and a mud-pie baking contest in the leaves, i chalked the sidewalks and played my heart out with dolls in the weeds, i look back with smiles and i can't help but laugh at the dance contests and jokes of the past,
but now it is different, because i no longer live there and now fall doesn't sound the same, it's tune is a little off kelter even though it's been four years adjusting i still think fall sounds like, hidden laughter in a place i no longer belong and now i'm cracked but the concrete has been repaired, without me there, and those trees with those softly descending leaves have been dead for so long, so long, to hiding tin foil bowls in the trees with honey meant for the fairies and by some magic finding them empty upon my return, good bye to hummingbird feeders and marker bathing suits, cutting a dolls hair because "summer was too hot on her phew, and she likes the look", goodbye to writing friends letters on sticky notes and hiding them on their lockers, goodbye to helping mean people with their homework because they told me i was smarter, goodbye to my friends and family coming over every summer and every fall, good bye to young me and her blissful stage when i thought i was the perfect daughter, and everyone's best friend - i learned a lot since then - but i miss the gentle words, she heard in the wind....
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i will always see early autumn in shades of empty skeleton faced bags empty wrappers and stomach-sick candy corn crunching i could never stand tootsie rolls but that never stopped me
seasonal pumpkin pie snacks and signature coffee pumpkin pie spice really goes crazy though if it were so wonderful surely people would notice it exists in summertime too
the spices leave a warm hum in your nose and a flush in your face as your tickled tongue tries to remember how to taste but candy which to children is first place covers your senses up in a sweetened glaze
have you ever noticed that pumpkin pie smells akin to gingerbread crusts butter-wet even though it lies atop it the smell sweet and subtle allows the bread to have representation
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walking down a path leaves crunch softly patting feet and then a rustling bush mother says "hush, something's following us" she thinks 'don't be silly nothing is following us' hurrying down the hill twigs snap leaves are crushed baby don't look back small feet still pat "mommy something's following us" she sighs "not another word" branches snap feet pat baby doesn't look back keeps running trees crack in the house the door smacks shut "oh god baby something was following us" they lock the door rap rap rap rap rap tip tap looks out the window sees something black run back into the woods "darling lets just stay inside until your father comes back home..."
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Respect is a valued commodity with high demand and low quantity, so build yourself a fortune by becoming a supplier. - Gem
you two were already having a great time before i came so of course i felt overcompelled to play my darling part to the maximum from the start and unnsurprisingly i fell and then i fell apart almost
like a bubble bursting a choppy silhouette
i could still see your shadows dancing long after i fell when suddenly i noticed the faintest ghostly hand as you patted my withered skull saying "brother you did well"
Respect is a valued commodity with high demand and low quantity, so build yourself a fortune by becoming a supplier. - Gem
you steal my breath and help it come you halt my step and create friction when i run you blow the newspaper off the table into my face you never forget to move my hair out of place you spread dandelion seeds for a million of your spiteful things you do good deeds
but i'll never forget the tornadoes you made and the tides you helped sway you're a natural disaster the original antihero
you sweep me up off my feet and then set me in the ocean to sink as delightfully as you spin there are daggers within moving at lightning speed and i know as peaceful as you can be you are turbulent just like me
so when you blow the leaves i reach out my hand and i'm not afraid because i know you can respond to me so softly and you do as the leaf lands
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