Driving Past Autumn Aspen Groves

the uphill splash of tangerine
bursts out of the darker evergreen
to shimmer and pose
like the most audacious dancers
in a ballet of such grand scale
even truckers with their
tins of chew are rendered dumb
and forget the details of the road
as we are all brought closer to whole
closer to absolved
slightly more full of grace
than we were at summer’s end