{3-part counterpoint for autumn, love and death}


silence of grey......... dawn..autumn....still in morning.......
.................dawn of love............unstill is..born........
.........quietus..........images..autumn..fall........in mourning

red and rust..........imbrue flavescent stillcold waiting leaves
............. warm....unformed...........my lifefor you........
rotting soft.......black............earth...................awaits

a single creature call somewhere above.........startles the air
...i..........you...........recall..a homeland...and love my life
..one........leaf..............falls............alone...............

.........dissolves in memory..........and threshold sussuration
informs resolves......thanatoid life still immanent with breath
diffracting down......tumbling..tumbling..threnody..of...sound


for Jocelyn   1971nev2006