Clarity

Brian Jones, "Raking Leaves"  Painting, Michael Gibson Gallery, London.

Yesterday

the fog bound-up the dying world

in white gauze,

but the autumn sun shred the fog,

would not permit

white lies,

inconsequential slips

to ease the passionate leaves'

passage into night.

Righteous winds ripped

the despairing leaves 

and sent them twisting joyfully

high over my house,

to the yard 

several over.

I got my neighbor's leaves

so it all 

worked out

in the end.