november (makebeleive)

board the windows, winterize.recess with my mind, i have some in-between time.recess with my mind, quilt of voices, piecemeal scenes.shutters clack, hush. muffle time, painting of a different stream.recess with my mind, jack frost taps the window sill, william tell atop the hill, dreaming arrows shoot the hay, autumn's color wheel will fade, stones thrown to blown spun glass.recess with my mind, re-invention. nurture past.recess with my mind, escape our independence day, correspondence won't relay.recess with my mind, redcoats raid the raincoats' space, soul to storm upon each face, clouds with roving eyes set sail, cannon cottonballs of hail, autumn raged the skeleton trees, kings and queens and squires flee, chessboard battlements ablaze, battle photo bleached away, lonely with the company, but when november calls me, creation melt my enemies, hibernation. silencing, makebelieve, memory just short of what it could've been, it didn't last, it went away, always knew it would. it's good to leave, it's sad to leave, there