The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
Pierre Corneille.
  orange leaves falling
to slow flowing water
sunset floating away
 
footsteps echoing
their sound softly polished
by the evening dew
   
    this blue autumn sky
could never be condensed to
seventeen syllables
odd little finch stares
unflinching, as if thinking
"odd little man stares..."
   
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