October deluge
Parka obscured costumes
Trick or treat, Portland
without or within
good or bad hidden from sight
and insight, monsters
Sugar skulls flowers
Celebrate both life and death
An ancestral chain
Tag: fall
CUSP
smoke and ash stirred
by rough winds, the pounding rain
quenches summer fires
summer steals away
in the soft stillness of night
and in it’s place, Fall
in the fallen leaves
gold of a vanished sun
summer’s gift to autumn
Image by Robin Anderson