With Others

Lincoln Conservation Land, Massachusetts

I look at this young beech
   gilded with radiant leaves,
      singing and dancing on the slightest breeze.
 
  Shines among pines... 

In the Shine

Brooks Woodland Preserve, Massachusetts
  
Autumn in the beech woodland...
  the leaves are up in the air, glowing
   and then come closer while I walk along,
        holding tightly to my eyes as if trying to keep me here forever...