The Sugar Maples outside Watauga High School. Photo Credit: Mitch Jasper
"Catching Fire"
delicately touched by an invisible match,
the leaves begin to burn.
maples:
instantly engulfed into a fiery red
a phoenix eager
to become ash.
oaks:
gone gently into that good night
toasted brown leaves dancing
through a foggy sky.
birch: yellow flames singe
the frail green that clings desperately
to streaking veins,
the evening rain setting them free
the autumn setting them alight
may it be death
but this is their only chance to fly.
-Selah Greer, staff member of The Spark
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