Lace
November’s brassy rainbow exploded.
Colder, darker, frost blackens the garden,
but daylight that’s shorter is brighter.
As trees lose leaves, the sky expands, reveals
nests of squirrels and wasps—hearts in skeletons.
Bare branches give us maps of triangles
within triangles. Pines, backstage in summer,
interpret the shapes of the wind.
At dusk, returning from my walk, I see
through grays and browns a patch of yellow lace
so like forsythia, I wonder which
saplings are mimicking this sign of spring.
Same height, same—wait! They are forsythia,
their last leaves mirroring their own first buds.
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