Golden

Impossibly yellow
Is a color you learn
On that certain day
When it covers everything.
The next day the branches
Will be bare and the carpet
Of leaves will have browned.
It’s a yellow that begs
For your presence:
Be here now,
Aware of all at once—
Color and sound,
Diverging trunks,
Excited children,
Three gray deer—
Because each moment
Vanishes so soon.