A Fair Range of Colors

I can see a patch of trees

Outside

Now

That offers a fair range of autumn colors

And that’s okay

I don’t need the most brilliant display of colors I can imagine

Because

I can imagine.

Autumn lives in my imagination as much as on the calendar.

The sight of a few golden leaves on their way down

Riding gravity’s pull with a deep green backdrop

is quite enough

To open the door to every autumn in my mind.

A thousand colors, a million cold mornings and fallen leaves

All alive in my mind

And I can see it clearly

As clearly as anything outside today.

-Kevin Slick