I shall be Autumn
this Halloween,
with leaf draped skirt,
and folds of
boysenberry velvet wine
flowing to the ground.

Brown stained face,
eyes rimmed in gold,
nails dripping sunset,
a crown of twigs
to cover my head.

You may gather from me
the spring of my youth,
my summer of maturity,
and hold onto with me,
the solace of these days
of remembering
before the frost.

©2008, Judith A. Lawrence

Judith Lawrence is a poet/artist from Bucks County, Pennsylvania and the editor/publisher of the River Poets Journal online, where you can read some of her poems, and the River Poets Quarterly Journal, a literary magazine. Another of her poems appears online in Poetic Diversity.

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