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Fall

Small branches tumble to earth
Like old dried fingers hacked off trees
Needle darts jet through space
Launched from limbs by icey breeze
Nut bombs bounce off littered drive
Busy squirrels for winter hide
The bounty dropped from oak and pine
Nature lives the season name
As fruit and flotsom fall and fall

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