The Trees

[Don Schaeffer]

Autumn Tooth and Claw

The leaves
don't really die you say
they are just part of the tree.
Yet I can't help a little pathos
as I watch the story of death
stealing the green and shrivelling
the smooth skin.

The leaves are
abandoned by their mother
I think, abandoned as the great
center, the important one
enters the shock of winter,
thinks save myself and
closes all the hatches to its heart.

[freygr]

It's all trees, it gives me no sense of scale. Nice colors------

The trees here have not started changing colors. Most likely they will change in a week or two.

[jkriminger]

nice abstract Don..oil right?