The last two stanzas are excellent.Not just coz of the content of the stanzas but the way it harmonises with the opening two stanzas to form a complete and wonderful poem in 4 small stanzas that has a lot of inner layers.This is more like the poet in you that I know hehe.

This is beautiful writing. No spare parts. I've read it several times aloud and it rings and lingers in my ears.

..has a haiku/senryu feel to it, balance and parallels & inferences to be uncovered. Small is beuatiful :>

Wonderful seasonal expresion here. Congrats on hitting no. 1. Well deserved!

...stephanie, this is heavy in it's pall of laconia...fall is in the air but Winter is in your eyes...not to get toooo existential, but winter in moooost instances has a cold, no-growth, sunless, dying kind-of-feelingness to it[tho i know some people juuuuust love the cold]i'm tawin' generalizations...soo, me in my world, tho i say it has yada, yada, that doesn't mean that it is not a tremendously great poem, speaking to us and our complexities...lovely, peace, chaz

Good work Steph. Worthy of number one...Charlie

Glad to see this as POTD. Congrats Stephanie!

excellent POTD... i love the feel of this... blessings...

mmmm, shivers. Excellent poem.