One of my favorite literary "scenes" is the conversation between two late Autumn leaves clinging to their tree, discussing life after death. The scene takes place in Bambi's woods, in the novel Bambi, A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten. It is the novel on which Walt Disney based the more familiar Bambi stories.
Salten's novel is, like most books, better than the movie. I'm coming to the end of something in my life, and walk twice daily through Willamette University's leaf piles, which had me thinking about letting go...
Letting go...
Dangling leaf holds tight
Hearing voices gone before
Leaps with all her might
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