Autumn slides so easily into the departing embrace of summer

An avatar comes of richest bounty borne from echoes of growth
Summers departing haste slighted by a gilted world of deep hues
The coming breath of winter is exhaled softer than a new dawn
Yet it stirs the shedding mantle disrobed by majestied Beeches
And within the prostrated montages of each leaf reflects summer
By winter’s depth to be only skeletal, featherless quills underfoot
The plumage of a Robin set among lichen is again a vibrant fall fire
Reminds us of the hearths ready to be lit again in cinderless grates
All the while I will gaze upon the season more; ere a new one begins

© Edetric Vistal