welcome autumn.

sitting up straight in this dilapidated bed struggling to catch my breath. like a cadaver, my limp body flops down against the sheets displaying gravity at it's fullest. and as the ceiling stares at me, I get lost for what seems like hours in the patterns and grooves. the grooves that become ocean waves in a dark, unforgiving water. my eyes float across the ocean and realize their confinement as they smash into the four corners of my bedroom. 

the four corners of this small bedroom.

the four of them live beside a window. a window that breathes in alley air and reflected light. tonight though, the intoxicating moonlight floods my little box. it lights up the quarters like I couldn't dream of doing in 15 years. 

and as summer sets on the horizon, it's tonight that fall rises in the eastern sky. it's tonight all the leaves dry up and crunch under our feet. and it is  tonight that a breeze blows the humidity away from my skin, and allows a cooler face to sit down at my dinner table.