Marilyn Humbert

Changing Seasons

It’s a sunny autumn afternoon in the Aged Care residents’ garden. Green tassel-bracts of wattles and banksia overshadow the path, feathering my face as I pass. Deciduous trees are a mass of red, yellow and bronze. I’m pushing Mum in her wheelchair between beds of pink dahlias and white chrysanthemums scattering leaves, lines of scurrying pin-dot ants and wafting flower scents.  She sighs.

cicada shell …
the tug and ebb
of memories

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About the Author

Marilyn Humbert lives in the Northern suburbs of Sydney, Australia. Her tanka and haiku appear in international and Australian journals, anthologies and online. Her free verse poems have been awarded prizes in competitions, published online and in anthologies.