by Larry Powers

Created on: August 30, 2009

Autumn's Aria


If one listens closely,
he can hear the winds,
from earth's four corners,
calling forth
a new season.

A presage,
a wisp of air, brought fresh
upon morning's wings,
bears witness
to autumn's approach.

Pin oaks and hickories
willfully disrobe scarlet and
amber shrouds of leaves,
scattering them upon the ground,
like Lazarus' discarded
burial garments.

It comes to us,
as cool, trickling waters
in a wooded stream,
a season of transformation,
a time of harvest
preceding the barren
fields of winter.

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