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Alan RiceOctober 09, 2014
Autumn leaves are reflected on Loch Dunmore in Perthshire, Scotland (CNS photo/Russell Cheyne, Reuters)
Autumn is the time of year
when God’s invisible hand
paints the leaves
in broad strokes
of color,
then plucks them off
one by one.
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