Autumn, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @brianrrs37 on Twitter/X)

The ridged brown fallen leaf
Tumbling from the wind
Skated across the sidewalk
An occasional pirouette

A mini vortex
Gathers it’s fallen comrades
The carousel fills up
Synchronized

Like the circus act
Motorcycles darting
Zooming in circles
In the iron cage ball

The air bites
Fostering rosy cheeks
The mittens
Will follow in weeks

Crepe in texture
Wrinkling my features
I will be that fallen leaf
Ridged and stiff

And my winter
Will be oblivion
Irrelevant to the sun
To the moon

To the universe.