Autumn

Sunflowers are passed
tatty brown
and the wind drags the garden
until all is flat and wasted
rubbish of sticks and crinkled
leaves.

All is passed and all is gone
and I am caving-in
on myself, bedraggled, long-gone
inside the mind, crushed and wasted
rubbish of bones and sallow
skin, nodding.
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