Source: Internet Photo
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CONCLUSION
Southern summers end
with September.
Leaves slowly turn from bright silvery green
to darker, Hooker’s green
filtered with oxide colors.
Reds, yellows splash here and there
like a painter’s palette
signaling the approach of Autumn.
Southern summers end
with rains beginning.
Heavy downpours,
oversized water droplets falling hard,
falling fast,
splashing high,
leaving reflective puddles.
The sky, the clouds lay there on the ground
within small lakes disappearing quickly
as the rains cease.
Sky and clouds escape into the ground,
sucked up into oblivion.
Southern summers end
as the rumbling Gods move their deep voices
and electric fingers
away with the dark, traveling clouds,
leaving room for the sun pushing through,
heating puddle remnants,
water vapor rising,
steamy,
Southern summer lingering.
