[Andrew Frisardi]

[Sorry, but this was embarrassingly bad.]

[RCL]

Nature Mirrors Man

After Thoreau in “Wild Apples”

Out foraging for apples, windfalls
crabbed and chilled by early frost,
he packs pants pockets with the fruit
and then, when on a saunter home,
he eats from one side, then the other,
by this rotation keeps his balance.

He recalls when nearly home:
a hunting hedgehog rolls over apples,
sticking fruit with its sharp quills,
but if one falls, it shakes off all
to roll again, regaining balance,
before returning to the nest.

[Roger Slater]

FALL TRIOLET

All summer long the trees were bare,
so what was left to fall?
A lurking chill instilled the air
all summer long. The trees were bare.
The birds left early in despair.
The worms forgot to crawl.
All summer long the trees were bare,
so what was left to fall?

[Douglas G. Brown]

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;
But not as great as the marvelous fling
Humpty experienced the previous spring.