A Suburban Walk In Autumn

Rain - an ocean of it

Pavements, gardens, us, under this

Aquatic. All colours deepen

The music of it - a song

of falling, of flood: red-gold

the leaves that settle in gutters

Cold, the windfall apple

Cupped in a palm

The fragrance of it: spiced

Musked, humus:

What falls now, nurtures next year’s fruit.