the air is crisp and cool the leaves are crisp and dying your walk on the levee, now, a brisk jog home. the horizon, burgundy, ashen, like a once raging fire put out by the night. from the river banks, a spectral mist, rising - reeking of sweet rot, all-engulfing - makes everything forgotten: the late summer first blurred, then erased, as we soon will be.
