Sweet Samara

Sweet samara, golden brown

Spin upon the breeze

Come to rest your head and husk

Amid the homeward trees.

Sweet samara, falling down

Journey at its end

Lay your soles in autumn leaves

And sleep beside your friend.

Sweet samara, seedling-crown

Twirling with your twin

Spiral coursing groundward

You shed your paper-skin.

Sweet samara, golden brown

Sleep in winter's loam

Then in spring, emergent, find

Your ever-rooty home.