haiku~~~~~~autumn leaves

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 stood for years waiting

waiting for the leaves to fall

a walking stick now

 

We were newlyweds, with  new baby, and a new house and a rake with a week handle that seemed grow splinters...one day it broke, or was it broken?? Not important anymore anyway.  Instead of taking the long trip into town to get a new rake handle, the rake was fitted with a handle made from a downed branch.  Decades past, we are in a new home, the rake with the homemade handle finally fell apart, a plastic rake that lasted almost 40 years.  Whodathunkit!!!