bosch

puppeteer drops his string:
and carefully orchestrates
this graceful pirouet
from life to death

leeched of life
yet full of it

as countless flakes of
trees' speckled coats
lie in crunchy mosaic

as twitching with breaths
of air and
smiling at the dappled
sun and
laughing with the children's
feet

they give themselves for
another's joy