It is a late fall. Usually by now, the trees have changed color and dropped a lot of their leaves. Stubborn old trees.
Still waiting
For the ginkgo
To change color,
Drop its leaves.
It seems longer this year
Than others.
Will they drop green
Instead
Of yellow?
Can they do that?
Sometimes oaks
Hold leaves,
Through the winter.
Stubborn old trees
No matter how much wind
Or snow
They will do
What they want.
I know people
Who declare themselves
Oaks,
No matter what
The winter says.
They hold on,
Wait for spring
Until new leaves
Push out
The old.
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