Wednesday, September 2021 at 3:20 PM...

eastern standard time Autumn Equinox arrives

That seasonal occasion twill arise

when darkness and light doth bring

equilibrium between night and day

raking leaves will constitute exercise

espied and witnessed by observant earthling

namely me who subsequently bellows hooray

jumping for joy childlike behavior I improvise

reliving boyhood mirth itching and inching

playfully scattering laborious effort lay

ying down burying self amidst tree humus - prize

zing spontaneity willingly orchestrating
shedding inapropos edict qua grown man at play.

A meadow for Autumn begins,

when eve doth fall upon summers’
and long ago mine childhood's end,

a hint of splendor bequeathed arose
upon firmament as changed scenery

(third equinox act since new year) bellows
basses loaded and blasted in sync

with pyrotechnic pizzazz,

while electric light orchestras suites scored for cellos
thus quiet riot of multitudinous notes swirl

from each bronzed leaf like fellows
dancing elliptically forsooth greeting mother earth

with char: rills brawn son utter hellos.

How peachy keen and grand to be seated

at plum lined tree center stage
to behold the colorful
capering downward spiraling threnody
quintessential silent rage
chapter three if nature alluded to

as a tome poem – and now the first page

known to humans since…way before indigenous tribes
occupied North America such as the Osage
and/or other natives, whose keen scents foretold

the onset from flora and fauna sings they did gauge.

Now regimentation of existence commandeered
by strict adherence affianced to the clock,
where misery loves company
lest an employee arrive one second late –

her/his pay will go hickory dock,
which sequestration to twenty first century life
analogous to men undergoing emasculation,

whereby he may as well be eunuch
without thick horn, where business

deals concluded as overhead a flock

of seagulls migrate to southern climes,

which with global warming seems ad hoc

yet the multitudinous animals and plants

genetically under rubric of life lock
which mucking around viz industrialization

humankind doth make a mock

‘ere re: and drive many miniscule species

to take safety and shelter under a rock

totally oblivious, those bipedal hominids haphazardly
scurry to work in order to purchase schlock.

Thus pre dormant season of the witch,

where one must be vigilant and tread
like angels heeding curtain call

draw wing summer to a close
with damn the torpedoes salvo,

the cacophony kaleidoscope of color
viz hitted courtesy sixty plus shades of red -
rose iz madder than horde of Bulls at Pamplona
forecast thee onset of cooler temperatures

with Falun Gong foliage natural compost

shelter burrowing creatures, who stash goodies

at a later time to be fed
thus each of us need be vigilant

with no misstep to tread
upon feet lightly negotiating

whereat dwells busy itty-bitty bodies

well nigh invisible to the naked eye,

yet if ground swell of organisms espied
one would behold microscopic

whirled wide webbed world.