long slow exhale

so we find ourselves

with the holidays

fast approaching

stacked up like dishes

on the Sunday morning

after the big party

Did you see Elwood

when he put the lap shade

on his head?

But before the frivolity,

begins in earnest

please take a moment

to ponder

to wonder in deep solitude

the many meanings of the season

the long slow exhale

that is the Fall

followed by the fully exhaled pause

that is the very heart

of Winter

Then Spring

the deep inhale

that starts the cycle

anew