Previous autumn ones

POIGNANCY

Sharp to the heart. 

The Point.  

Spring's faded pastels

traded for 

Saturation

October's fiery pink pathos

and golden November, topaz days' 

Departure

A moment, balanced - burnished gold / smoky bright 

slowly turning away. 

It can't stay, it can't stay.

Oh, but for

this aching beauty as it leaves.

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BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT

Swaddled in golden hope 

as it drops from the trees

or bound by the darkest scrap of dread,

in the dead 

heap at your feet

You decide -

and a future arrives. 

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WEATHER REPORT

Daylight falters...dies... 

Twilight reigns supreme today, 

loathe to break the ice. 

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Colloidal

A silent stone tint

suspended around you;

misting sky and earth, 

dispersed among the gold and green

in gradient shades

Dampened leaves have turned to

their next

scarlet

chapter

And you can't remember

when you 

last

blinked