We offer gall to sheep seeking clear brook water. Brown fields have deputized themselves, laying waste green pastures. The sun is gorged with fire before it peeks above the Eastern rim. Autumn now bargains with passing artists for their pallets. Horse drawn sleighs that sliced through powdered snow, that pealed hello, faces laughing all aglow, now sink in mire, the only sound, the chewing mud. We are the Shylock artist stroking wide a swath of paint on canvas, the color of lost. And in our pretended effort we have become breakfast for the wolves. We have become the thirsty lamb.
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Posted: Aug 2014
About this poem:
The maintenance man, at the request of a tenant cut branches from a tree outside her window so she could see the driveway.?? I thought what would happen if the tree did not turn c leaves because they could no longerolors in the fall because of too much cutting? Would we bargin an artist for his pallet to paint the colors on the leaves because they could no change themselves. There is no more snow for sleighs oly wet mud and mireand the sleighs are chewed up by the mud. Have we become so lax ss to give gall to a thirsting lam as they did the Lamb of God? Is there any hopthat we will care or will we become breakfast for the wolves??