Center Fire Poetry
Scott DuRoff's Poetic Musings on Life, Love and Death
  • Poetry Talk
  • The Unrung Bell
  • One Bit of Difference
  • Some Time to Kill
  • Old Stones
  • Home
  • Slipping Away
  • Mockingbird
  • Seeds
  • Barstools
  • Easy Grace
  • Mineral Man
  • The Skinny Branches
  • Why Not?
  • The Priestess
  • Autumn
  • For Now and Forever
  • Reliable Foundations
  • The Right To Folly
  • A New Recruit
  • Yes!
  • All The Angles
  • Happy Fourth Of July
  • The Gravity of Being
  • My Love
  • Make The Trade
  • The Horns of the Minotaur
  • Walking Away
  • Anywhere But Here
  • Meat Dance
Picture
Autumn

Sitting contentedly
On the lichen decorated log,
Gracious clearing
Dappled in dancing sunlight.

She sits crosslegged
On the forest floor
Surrounded by eager
Radiant faces.

They take turns
Pressing their inquiries.
What about this mushroom?
And this? Ahh, how beautiful!
The air glistens with grace.

The kindness and generosity
Of her answers
Are like a gentle,
Encouraging embrace.

My gaze shifts from her
Warm brown eyes
To take in the intimacy
Of this golden moment.

The sweet damp forest air,
The scraggily pines
Lean in close to hear
The names of their fungal friends.

Fellowship so precious
And fleeting, like
The mushrooms themselves
On this fine Autumn day.


Scott DuRoff 11/2014

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