Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine # 14

Fall Remembers Just as you forgot fall remembered to transform our aging leaves into browns, brightened colors, and burnish golds, empty leaf-filled trees with a cool swift wind, and then, like a subtle wave, still their bare branches.

You passed on that same day, when pines and other conifers retained their shaded yellows, greens, blues, and remained with your ending mix of quieting breath.

Slight sounds flow through me anew, more of a dimmed howl— in dense dark moments, and at the near start of our next season, they overlap with frosted hues of goodbye.

Deborah Levine-Donnerstein Deborah Levine-Donnerstein’s past work has appeared in Santa Barbara Anthology (Community of Voices), Curiouser and Curiouser, The Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine, and other publications. Retired from the faculties of the University of California and University of Arizona, she began writing more poetry and fiction in Asheville, North Carolina.