AUTUMN HARVEST

Photo by S. Auberle

An autumn photo and poem seems appropriate for this rainy day...

SEPTEMBER

so soon come
the shortening days...
fox fur
thickening
apples
beginning
to hang heavy
one maple
already turning
red harbinger
of the long white
to come...

~  S. Auberle
previously published as "August Evening"
in "Crow Ink" 2009 Little Eagle Press