Fading Freshness of a Leafy Summer
Today's Prompt: What do you see the weather doing outside your window?
The weather outside my window right now is softly holding the fading freshness of a leafy summer.
A gentle breeze cushions each amber leaf on its discrete descent from comfortable set to a last such branch below.
To rest among others still raw and connected to the tree's life force for now.
Watching other cinnamon gliders join the fragrant herd lying still over the forest floor.
Beneath the covers the cocoa soil is cool and fresh. The tree roots nestled like toes in warm socks.
Slender, bare trunks, vulnerable in the open air as a once abundant protective covering lessens leaf by verdant leaf.
Next spring's buds distinct among sunny foliage.
Each tree on its own defenseless timeline cued by diminished daylight and chilled starry darkness.
Every undressed branch revealing rooms in the treetops previously occupied by the freshness of a leafy summer.
