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Nicole Taylor, US   Fall Nature In Independence, OR   Walking the dog, my friend's dalmatian she pulls. I pull the other dog's bark. At the Independence Amphitheatre Riverview Park downtown I sit on the green lawn with green walnut casings. Small and large nuts and leaves fall in umbers, ambers, and taupes. Small rounded acorns picked. Small rounded oak leaves picked. Poles and vines of green hops grow behind library. Fall festival arrives in late September. Stray wild fruit and berries bright green apples, grapes, and pears with juicy and crisp fall to fields and streets. fall 2007     sad leaves   Sunny September morning, I finished a painting for a watercolors class, an imaginary trip through autumn, and saw those colors everywhere tierra samara and tree nuts as tierra verde and sugar maple gum balls as Phthalocyanine greenholly berries, leaves. In the Riverfront Park Loop, heading west, I was stopping to pick up brightness and an interesting streaming line and tear from a sad leaves on a sad tree, before walking between two volunteer joss from children and craft paper to adults and book sorting. I saw sienna "ping-pong" ball galls and fuzzy galls leaving rounded oak leaves. I was examining crepe paper like leaves adorning azo colored quaking, whispering aspens of scarlet and big leaf maples. Hearts on lilacs and elms, lindens and cottonwoods leaving their arms, branches.     September at the Dock After Walt Whitman’s The Dalliance of the Eagles   Watching slices of summer, watching boats slice all around us, and he says “This is nice.” Swinging legs and feet, bare and exposing our languish and languid feelings, fears, and stresses. A couple pass by in a canoe. We talk about wanting to go paddle boating. A couple of eagles or herons fly by. I think about the herons on Puget Island at dad’s last home as we wade and the heron wade. The cool air slides our bare limbs. I watch the changing, swinging leaves. I want to sit and enjoy this dock on the Willamette when autumn fully arrives. October 5, 2005     About Nicole Taylor, US   Nicole Taylor, has many hopeful projects and no MFA's. Nicole Taylor has been published online, a few print journals and local journals and winning locally in Oregon. She is an artist, a volunteer, a hiker and dancer, formerly in DanceAbility with physically disabled friends but Nicole is not physically disabled who blogs at  http:/www.apoetessanthology.blogspot.com   and http://www.facebook.com/Pushk1n This is Nicole Taylor's first appearance in Sketchbook.