Grass Attends Each Congregate Leaf

Grass attends each congregate leaf
sodden heap and hill
scratch-raking earth’s full belly justifies belief
each year’s cold dark rituals kill

Leaves drop sighing at trees farewell
to hot season’s fun,
echappe, tight pirouettes, pas de deux all fell
jubilant, fearfully as one

Earth’s press a million years forms coal,
all crushed wood and bones,
bog-buried mud-ice tombs, subterranean soul,
grass reclaims cemetery stones.