2 posts tagged “leaves”
Hedged Bets
Lift your covers up woman
Rise out of bed.
Sneak down the dark hall
Mind the floorboards that creak.
Slip to night out your back-door
Take a small light to see
Find our place in the bushes
Where we used to meet
It's been some time since there was a once in my while,
it's been a long line since there was happy in the smile.
Ain't nothing so cool as a hot summer rain
It soaks and it soothes and it puddles the pain
Your miles stretched out ahead of my years
Forget about your day now
The titles that you wear
You were none of those to me there
They all unzipped and fell
Remember what you became then
With leaves in your hair
Listen to what the night brings
The past in your head
It's been some time since there was a once in my while,
it's been a long line since there was happy in the smile.
Ain't nothing so cool as a hot summer rain
It soaks and it soothes and it puddles the pain
Your miles stretched out ahead of my years
Ain't nobody meeting you tonight
Not like I did
You can see into your house
through a closed window and to a warm bed
This is what you have now
And this shrub's just a hedge
No rendezvous for wary lovers this night
But for the yowl of a lonely tomcat
It's been some time since there was a once in my while,
it's been a long line since there was happy in the smile.
Ain't nothing so cool as a hot summer rain
It soaks and it soothes and it puddles the pain
Your miles stretched out ahead of my years
It is still Fall here, but fading to Winter.
While the youngest was napping mid-morning, the eldest and I bundled up and assaulted the yard with a rake and leaf-bags.
I wielded the rake and the eldest used her hands to fill eight 30-gallon leaf-bags.
I've been getting about 4 bags filled each week for a month now, but this week or next should be the last of it, depending on the prevailing winds.
Exactly half of the leaf bags we filled came from the side of our yard where we have no leaf-bearing trees.
Volunteer immigrants coming over from the neighbors yard.
The yard looks a lot bigger when you're up close and personal with it raking leaves from every square inch.
And as I manhandled the bags to the end of the driveway for trash pickup, I was reminded just how much longer the driveway will seem when it is covered in heavy wet snow and I'm shoveling my way down.
That will be here all too soon, to alter my perspective once more.
