the tree’s snakes

tangle to keep each other warm

deep in sleeping winter

--Amber

the old tree dances

 too slowly

for the leaves to see

--Christina

stream of passing cascades

bears the red leaves

 to where the poet wanders

--Benzene

step over the rocks

the old roots

too thirsts for the stream

--Prime

water falls fast

to purl the stream

leaves lie damp beside

--Johnny

sere roots

leaves fallen

have you seen the new birds?

--Christine Wang

leaves fallen, stream flowing

will they meet

before first snows?

--Tony

friends try to find

the time capsule

under a decades tree

--Kelvin

they fall in silence

neither the stream nor the tree

protects them

--Charley

the sleeping tree

held its last leaves tight

but all are fallen now

--Lydia

fallen leaves

of the maple

nourish the old pale roots

--Ricky