Fall in love, to stumble down A staircase is to miss the corners Curves on the light And plod head over feels Or the beautiful reverse Either way's a bruise reconnaissance Renaissancing with middle age Zero to a hundred Since tick marks show How to say old In any language Dyed hard, hairless trees, It's falling down around you The winter, coming near, Metaphonic birdsong Dealt a bad hand By a crooked dealer Assumed deadly So unquestioned While the temptation to Devour everything in the Cupboard is a baseboard Heating up a room Without a sense of temperature