252. FROST WARNING TONIGHT

252. 


FROST WARNING TONIGHT

The sweltering afternoons of summer

have slipped into lingering 

autumn nights and chilly mornings,

the last of the purple phlox

blooms beside the footpath,

sumac and sugar maple 

flame scarlet and gold

along the River Road

and the homeless man,

who lived at the park bench

near Eustis Street

the whole month of August 

and part of September,

has packed his small sack

of belongings and moved on.





*comments welcome


NOTES:

No frost warnings yet.

Poetic license, I guess!

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