The Calmer Autumn Colors Range
The calmer autumn colors range along
Wide walkways of the city parks. The greens
Predominate. We forget that their strong
Insistence is the background to the scenes
That poets paint about the season. Bold
Explosions of a brigher orange here
And there send sound waves out, but muted gold,
As if a dying rust could spread its sere
Invasion on that metal, plays its notes
Here too along with pheasant browns too red
In dying to be boring and where motes
Of sun strike on their feathered shape they shed
A glory like a pheasant’s treasure chest
Revealed when morning strikes his satin breast.