holding everything
sewage of ancestral strands
this too is of me


-kaa

never so lonely
my boyfriend brought me a gift
red, gold leaf


-kaa


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fallen maple leaf
fire-colored, red and yellow
edged in white by frost


-jws

chilly wind circles
basket of green tomatoes
caterpillar fur


-kaa

brown and yellow leaves
blown swiftly by a cold wind
chased by a small dog


-jws


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uh, do you like me?
inconclusive conclusion
response in silence


-kaa

urine-stained paper
your slowly-departing life
far off, she meows


-kaa

pale moonlight shining
wet leaves in the cold morning
shadows of branches


-jws


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in a dream, we laugh
Bach partita plays softly
drifting, we don't move


-kaa

ochre leaves falling
wondering about plan B
kept by a warm wind


-kaa

a sense of longing
waiting for something unknown
loose thread in my sock


-kaa

lying in the grass
of the old cemetery -
lovers in the sun


-jws