TAPESTRY

Color cloaked

abundant autumn

celebrating riots of color

crisp fires and flames

passionhued and urgent,

Tapestry treed

woven majestic with kingly tints

embossed in splendor,

reaching splendid.

Around each corner

a still life vibrating

shimmers of trees

a cradled desert mirage

of reds and golds

Byzantium boldness.

Leaves sparkle and dance before they fall

to lie upon the ground

passion spent, but still

remembered

while tree trunks are sleeved in somber colors

waiting to become silhouettes

against the winter white.