autumn rain

I feel it in my bones
hours before the first drop
when the sky floods gray 
and heavy, my knees scream
my back aches and my hair
becomes a web of straw clinging
to my head…my thought process
grows sluggish…and I think 
the very best I can manage 
is a nap, a very long nap
in fact wake me up come spring 
when the rain is sweet and cool
not this bone-chilling deluge 
that drenches fallen leaves 
grinding them into loam 
tree limbs overhead stripped bare, 
unable to shade the carnage below
oh that it would snow, this season
in between has lost its charm
the letting go, the letting go…
to death…I feel it in my bones

~kat