That Which Belongs To Both

The crisp green that belongs to both

fall and spring is at the tops of the trees.

Have you ever noticed that spring spreads

from the bottom up, as fall does from the top down?

As if each lives out the verb with which it shares

a name. A certain few weeks each year,

photos can’t capture whether or not

the green is coming or going. All looks the same,

like pictures of sunrises and sunsets--I never could

tell them apart. Something about that sameness

in ending and beginning is comforting, I think.

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