The Lesson of Leaves | James T. Stemmle

at a time in my life a late 
phase of transition to eternal 
life during which my ambient 

thoughts are becoming more 
detached from reality giving 
me perspective seeing through 

things to their underlying 
significance egad I have 
become a prophet it was in 

me all along but just as leaves 
change color before they die 
and fall their main function 

shutting down that entails 
chlorophyl using sunlight to 
convert carbon into energetic 

molecules ceases so other 
pigments that were there all 
along start showing through 

the prophet and my other 
dimensions that were there 
all along have started showing

James T. Stemmle is an old man, currently living retirement in West Virginia, USA, with his wife. In warm weather, he writes poetry during morning meditations on a bench in his back yard, where, immersed in nature, it is so quiet that, depending on atmospheric conditions, he can sometimes hear traffic on a major hiway four miles distant. He earned a PhD from Catholic U in Washington DC in Chemistry. He has published seventeen poems so far in several small literary magazines