Katrina Kaye

Like any good fortune teller, I know when the leaves will start to fall. After all, prophets are really just people who pay attention, and after 45 years I’ve started to catch on to the comings and goings of this world. The light and the dark, the heat and the cold. I know it’s too early for the heaters – still another week or so until I can truly find comfort in my wool sweater and fuzzy slippers. But the cold will come, first in the dark of night, then spreading into the morning, until it eventually embraces the day, clinging to the earth under the bright of winter sun.

By now, I am used to the cycle of the seasons. By now, I can predict the fullness and emptiness of the moon. By now, I should anticipant my mood swings, know when the pills stop working, have an innate knowledge of when my body needs a fast, a night in, a few hours of solitude. By now, I should be able to know how to take care of all that I need.  The trees have it down; their wardrobes already picked out for the fall, the winter, the spring, and eventual return to summer – and repeat and repeat and repeat.