time buildings footsteps torches all overlap, a car parks where a foot walks and a foot falls in another other's shadow, which shadows another and shadows all as on the other side of the negative a positive but its brightness tied to its sadness in this season season in this season we may hold hands and we may reflect sad pinecones and leaf piles may feel the funny familiarity only makes everything funny and strange two in compliment that match and do not meld, stacked next to each other or to be rolled off together into other containers of time of passing other containers with arbitrary lines and colors on flat pieces where there can be no running not into, not to, not across and not away the flat surface holds all its secrets in a tidy container and in this vegetable I can now begin to carve the face the true face of fall