Color Splashes

From green through yellow-orange-red

to brown and down,

the descent is chillingly fast,

lasts weeks at most,

a reminder we all fade in the end.

And yet, how glorious those days are,

colors splash, dashes of confetti across the hills,

every shade and hue and tint,

(not stinting purple and lavender in roadside asters),

as if to empty the paint box, clear the palette,

with a final stroke to have given our all.

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