Autumnful

One is of a duck, for all its feathered glory, lying unaccountably dead in the midst of an autumnful of fruit; the other an idyl, a meadow-curving pregnancy of bloom becoming orchard, the sunlight busy with its probes.

Aldo and Carl had an autumnful of grouse and pheasant hunts, using the shack as basecamp for excursions into the tamarack swamps of Adams County.

The dirt was humid and black, difficult to find under several autumnfuls of leaves, but a few scattered spots of neon yellow stood out.