‘Golden Rain Tree’

Emma Sywyj is an award winning artist and photographer that has been creating art for twenty years. For five of those years she was based in London studying photography at the Camberwell College of Arts at the UAL. From there she received a BA in Photography and a Foundation Diploma in Art & Design. She has exhibited artwork internationally in the US in New York, LA, Art Basel Miami & San Francisco, as well as in Athens, Greece and Budapest in Hungary.

Golden Rain Tree

plot twist:

we don’t need maples here.

the loudmouth in the cul-de-sac

tosses pink confetti,

afterparty early.

she doesn’t whisper autumn

she shrieks it,

bouffant and lipstick,

shoving her way

into october’s photo shoot.

oaks mumble,

palms shrug,

st. augustine grass still wilts.

florida pretends

nothing is changing,

but everywhere,

things lean toward falling.

still though

she turns herself into autumn,

a stubborn blaze

while the rest of us

slip,

unseen,

into the Fall.

Debra Tracy is a Puerto Rican–American writer based on Florida’s Space Coast, where rockets, rain trees, and family lore constantly sneak into her work. She shares bits of her writing life and lots of food pics on Instagram @debinthemoon