gray time

it’s late
it’s fall
winter’s rise
a month away

the bears
have eaten salmon

I saw the camera’s highlights
of
bear
red flesh
and moving stream
taking
what is red
away

so now
the bears are done
(the
salmon gone)
and time for the
sleep
of a season
in the impulse of the bear

and the gray comes
earlier
should clouds
impede
a brilliance for a sunset

either way
and then
is
black-paned night
maybe
rest

regardless
after
hours
the next
the new day

c l couch


photo by Val Vesa on Unsplash 
Sunset in Cluj, Romania