“Some people thought spring was the time of renewal, but Sadie had always equated that feeling with autumn. It felt like a shedding of mistakes - falling leaves, crisp breezes. As if you could cast off an old skin to work on a new one.”
“When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.”
“The circus looks abandoned and empty. But you think perhaps you can smell caramel wafting through the evening breeze, beneath the crisp scent of the autumn leaves. A subtle sweetness at the edges of the cold.”
“Step forward into the new reality every time. Shed your old skin. Do not return to the past.”
“I saw the autumn leaves peel up of the street, Take wing on the balmy breeze and sweep you off your feet”
“Cast off everything/everyone else has known for you./Move gratefully, from these old skins./And this time, if you toughen,/decide/for whom?”