Come Back Every Spring

Drift

Fall Like Sleet

Tremble

Turn Over

Wilt

Wilt Like Houseplants

leaf

autumn

falling in love

dad joke

spring

hospital

falling down

folklore

weather

weather lore

rain

collective noun

leaving

botany

Let's make like a . . . 

lettuce

tree

raking leaves

trivia

leafage

dirt

samurai

samurai sword

Things That Look Like Other Things

is the only thing that knows the true color of sunlight.

Only leaves know the true color of sunlight.

Each leaf is a table at which the sun dines.

is a one-fingered hand with the finger as capable as any arm: they send out semaphore signals in the wind.

Leaves are one-fingered hands with the finger as capable as any arm: they send out semaphore signals in the wind. The secret of digital dexterity in a pianist is each finger on each hand making powerful armlike movements that descend from upper arm to forearm and from forearm to hand, with shoulder-joint mutating into elbow-joint and elbow into fist, each hand movement fusing everything together. When a great pianist performs, each finger is a minimal arm, each fingertip a multi-fingered hand. He can make a piano sound like some colossal two-handed orchestra.

leaf, n.All

leaf