Decomposing

In autumn
when leaves blanket
my yard
I hope
unlike most others
for rain
before I rake

The added
mess of raking
wet leaves is much
preferred
for it hastens their
decay and
olfactory air

Intoxicating

I inhale my youth
forest floor of
Hanson’s woods
where she
and I would

walk and
where we once sat
on a log
surrounded by dead
leaves and
their
moldering aroma

punctuating
everything that was
of me and
her smile has faded
but scents of
the earth
that forest

remind me
of a time when all
was right, and so
was she and
so were we and

now the
smell of decay
keeps
her alive

– Mark L. Lucker
© 2021
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