part of a poem i'm working on - autumnism's like autism (tentative)

The mealy peaches descend from branches

Bruised and battered, just like my mother ached

And the fruit flies gather, to bid farewell

Amidst the over-ripened wake

And the barking herd, interrupts the order

Border Collie tongues drape like salty palls

Digging shallow holes, like catacombs

'tis a sign that autumn's come

I pull my stockings up, up past my hooked nose

Button-down my flannel, a dead-beat's hammy down

I lace my boots snug, so they cannot part with

my soles, why'd he leave without a sound?

So I tramped down on, towards the marshy, mellow

Pond; string, hook in hand and baited by a fly

And I could not swallow the silent stillness

My breath broke the soundless sky

I casted once, then three times over

Hexed with a rat's luck, the hook swam bleak and bare

So I surrendered to the bank's botany:

Watercress, lotus; despair!

And the polliwogs, you will not decipher

Nor myself, for the sun has bit me brown

And my fingertips have sprouted like thorns

I am a man, halfly-crowned

I'm the kindest king, 'cross my kingdom

Just ask the acres, for they have never ached nor sered

For the water runs, from the sound of song

That I hum towards her rainier (rain-ear)

And the botched-tailed cat, sifts through the woodlet

Harvesting hares like crops, cultivated just for sport

And I've shunned her time, and time over

"The chicory and peas you may floor."

The spaghetti squash, squalls in fever

Under-tended and obtuse, eager to be stewed

And I knew not of my kindred's recipe

So it rotted and I rued

And the nude painted pantry, which preserves my pickles,

Jams, jars, jellies, and a broom just in case

Jealousy ensues a pickled-panic

Becoming irate and sure to break

And so I sleep all day, for my time is fleeting

Setting all the stars, to rouse me like a clock

And when the sun retreats, I hear the twinkling

A snooze button I have not