Chill

First chill of autumn—

an old woman puts on gloves

to take out the trash.

Cane

Making her way home,

an old woman taps her cane

on the wet pavement.

from an old woman

buying a bunch of fresh leeks

for potato soup

Tapping with a stick,

the blind woman makes her way

through the garden gate.

fading photograph—

old woman in a coffin

clutching one white rose

narrow woodland path—

old woman stepping aside

to let the moon pass

telling the sparrows

to hush their noisy gossip—

a woman bathing