Elucidating Questions

It is October 21st

The leafs have just begun to turn red

The maples sensed something was up and started turning two weeks before anything else did

Is no one concerned?

The trees are usually bare by now, rattling in the wind with their spindly branches and leafless sticks

I’m not saying it’s terrible

But it’s bad

Seasons are moving and summer is hotter and drier than ever

And the humans just live through it like it’s normal

Denying climate change

I used to live in a rain forest

Rain forest

You know, with rain

Now the Summers are so dry the plants turn brittle and dead

Now the Falls come in late and pour down the rain that was missed over summer,

Coaxing the wildness back to life only for it to slip straight into sleep

Today is the first day of leafs falling and the wind playing with them

But if Fall is this late,

What of winter?