October 26-27, 2023

Schrunch!

I love to be schrunching leaves in Autumn

to be setting their flaming glory to flight

walking bold through heaped up wonder

crinkling under my soles like an old memory

renewed to life in October's glorious light

it does the child in me a world of good

to recall his carefree youth, when this hill

I too quickly crest, was a far distant shade

an uncared story told by those unbelieved

by a boy in the wild exuberance of Spring

when all that mattered was the "Scrunch!"

of Autumn leaves under every carefree step