This is how things end
under an autumn sun hot as summer.
Birds flocking in the trees
roses spilling petals,
a garter snake tracing slow s-bends in the brown grass,
sliding like a sigh into dry weeds
while the tide pulls away from the beach.
Julie Gerrard lives and writes in Seattle (and often rides Metro).
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