Thought for the Week: Dying fall

'Dying fall' by UA Fanthorpe

by UA Fanthorpe 7th November 2014

November’s leaves flock ginger and stiff along the gutter,
Waiting for the wind to say.

Boots (black), shoes (brown), knee-socks (white).
Their feet speak for them:

Brownies and cubs (eyes left to grin at Mum),
WRVS, swinging arms whose baskets we know,