warm october -
the lingering green
ginko leaves

Watermelon candy
at the tanning salon:
just like Summer.

Babe Ruth's ghost
is gone.
Sad October.

October downpour
The flickering starry
Street

In courthouses,
at funerals:
our family reunions

the miles
these tides
have travelled

tropical autumn:
cool rain in the leaves
of the banyan tree