Dewy dust drapes dusky sweeps
Geese-vees perforate yon blue
Sparser now the cricket cheeps
Jarring senses with adieu
Soybean fields unfold mauve mist
Morning is a frost-kissed barge
September’s perfect Artist
Strews masterpieces; no charge
Longing is a hunter, wild
September is easy prey
Vexing, taunting summer’s child
Torn between ‘let’s roam, let’s stay’
Autumn’s advent chills and thrills
Farewell trembles, bittersweet
While a fount of petals spills
Fragrant vagrants at our feet
Orchard oboes mesmerize
Apple-dappled rhapsodies
Steal the sorrow from our sighs
With annual ecstasies
Golden rod and gentian
Wild aster and Sweet Joe Pye
Flow into roadside gardens
Like a buffet for the eye
Like a river none can see
By a tide of wild wind borne
Sea-song rushes obscurely
Through channels of brittle corn
Ginger-pumpkin-cinnamon
Warms and seasons comfort foods
Firesides regain aplomb
Leaf-lanterns ignite the woods
© Janet Martin
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