Donning autumn's royal colored cloak
and crown bedight---
Adorned with fallen glowing leaves
as titian hair and flaxen husks
wove with wheats englodened sheaves.

Softened ochred gourds
anchor draggled rooted vines
beneath the wind strewn hay.
The shifting sun of shortened days,
The fading light and mist and shades of grey---
Embrace the seasoned autumn,
spiced with wisdom's sage.

P. Suess