The Yellow Leaf - Nina Mermey Klippel

[Larry Robinson]

The Yellow  Leaf


       In Washington Square Park

 
A yellow leaf
drifts
slowly down, 
turning langorously
like a swimmer afloat
on gentle waves.
I watch it go
down,
slantwise,
down
till it is lost
in a patch of pale asters. 
 
“Do it again!”
I cry, almost aloud. 
But no.
Never again.
Never in the history of the universe
past and to come
will it happen again.
 
And so, the moments of my life
each unique, inimitable, irretrievable,
gone forever.
 
And yet,
unlike that singular leaf,
another follows,
and another
giving the illusion
of immortality.
 
     - Nina Mermey Klippel
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