Sunday 29 October 2017

Autumn Day

                Autumn Day

In this part of her southern kingdom 
she slips in quietly, pre-dawn,
opening windows,
letting the heat of summer seep away.
A thin mist hovers briefly on the river,
then lifts into the still sky.
On the mirrored surface
the smooth, white trunked water gums
hang upside down in sky
blue from horizon to horizon.
The day shortens.
Westwards, the distant mountains,
blue by day, darken to purple.
Above them, briefly,
a swathe of orange.
Above that the indigo sky
and the Evening Star.
Then the orange dims
and black, velvet night, 
diamond studded, descends 
over the quiet and cooling earth.

Published in “The Weekly Avocet”

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