Last yellow leaf

I opened my palm
and my breath settled down
as fleeting wispy
and fragile \as the cotton candy
before all of it blew away
i closed my fist
trapping half a breath
it shook my fist so
my heart jumped up at the sound
rattling against
my rib cage
willing to be unimprisoned
an invisible force jolted
my hand
needing my last breath
but I held tenaciously
on
like the last
yellowed leaf
of autumn
with a
green heart