HOLD ON TO AUTUMN... T3M's AUTUMN CHALLENGE...

 Color steals from the scene 

leaving the landscape mottled 

in muted shades of grey and brown. 

the last of autumns vibrant leaves 

let go and roll away.

 Canadas loiter in the field and pond 

fill the sky in huge arrows pointed south. 

Grey clouds hang thick and low, 

twitching finger branches tap the window. 

As bare corn stalks rattle in the wind, 

abandoned pumpkins wither in the skeletal garden. 

Flocks, hundreds of black starlings 

shifting paisleys in the air. 

And then, snow, a few flakes, 

then more, and then winter. 

This would be November. 

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DSW 09