Fall fell today
Time to change
To huddle cuddling
Of weathers sweaters
Of twinkling piano
Lazily wafting overhead
Overheard above crackling
And spitting fires
Swooning and sweeping
Orange and red
Across the room
And whiskey neat
As we’re given
Another good reason
To move closer
Together as though
We need one
And here especially here
My favorite season entered
Quietly and without fanfare
Like a lover climbing
Clandestinely into my bed
And snuggling up close
Landing whispering kisses onto
Drowsy lips with promises
Of magnificent things to
Come Happy Autumn all
When one does it
Doesn’t matter that others
Don’t it’s like the
Need is gone we
Forget just how important
Just one really is
One song one hello
One date one night
That makes all of
The others just others
And in that moment
That very first moment
Upon rising from sleep
I am suddenly aware
That it is true
You are really here
Whether near or far
Whether outside or in
You are there prompting
Me to be better
Then than ever before
Doing having and being
Are very different things
Doing love for instance
Is natural like birth
It’s an eruption having
Love is a feeling
It’s invisible usually divisible
But being love is
Lonely and of one
What I said first
Is actually really backwards
It’s being having doing
HARLAN DIDRICKSON 