Feeling Autumnthe scent of caramel streamsin the air over burnt pecansand brown sugar dreamscrystalized into tears held stilland silent like thesap on a crying maple treeand the sweet savory smokefrom the pasture no longer thereand the leaves in the barreldown the street warming theman's frozen fingersas they crumble in the glowing heatto embers lighting his facethe cold air keeps me warmsince I cuddle inside your sweaterthat holds in my heat like a comfortfrom within me and I catch my momentsin a cloud of breath held aloft in the airbefore disintigrating into beadsof moisture on your skin