Autumn VII: Trifold

1.      
Late autumn and winter
bring subtle charms
  with Yuletide work—
such as crafting aphrodisiacal recipes
  for holiday gifts and soirées

Plenty of rain, festooning
  and burning of leaves
are a homecoming of sorts
  —the bouquet signaling an end
  to laborious harvesting—
before bedecking a new beginning

—we do what needs be done
while awaiting light’s return

2.
Rooted firmly in the forest
is but another laboring colony
  —one predating humans—
deciduous Beings contemplating
their post-Solstic dormancy

An old Snag, having seen it all
is tolerant of a young River Birch—
   her yellow limbs all aflutter
while orange Sugar Maples eagerly huddle
   within earshot of the exchange

Such dramatics are commonplace
   amid these slumber parties—
until hibernation succeeds

They do what needs be done
   until Spring nudges their roots

3.
Suspended in the atmosphere
a Cold Moon shadows its high trajectory
  being blamed for human wonkiness
  while credited for positive circumstance—
it superbly balances both aspects

The culmination of a cycle
  pivoting on a dime in Gemini—
childlike and adult in one
adventure in fresh supply

It does what needs be done
  to maintain an allusive mystery
until it makes its return

While we, battened snugly
  beneath our hatches
believe it to know everything        
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