the Stars are all falling

the Stars are all falling
Springtime is dying
Autumn inhabits
this midnight.
the branches that held them
suddenly release them
to fall to the ground
now ablaze.
and what will the Sky think
when she finds them all missing?
her children have
all abandoned


her


cold. and
now the Stars—they’re all dy
ing; Winter’s arriving
with these fall
ing

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[the spacing's different in the real version, but it doesn't translate well to blogger... i sketched an illustration as welllll... wanna see?]