Firing up Autumn
Reflect
on these flowers…
those colours…clashing, unco-ordinated,
sky blue with burnt orange
lemon against scarlet.
Yet here, reclining by the
garden shed
michaelmas daisies drowse
and fall
where chinese lanterns’
fiery brilliance
weave through the
smouldering fuschias
exulting in their own
exuberance…
while in the dusk, the
evening primrose
glows pale in the half-light,
illuminates
the burning beds of early
Autumn,
and nearby a red admiral,
the glittering remnant of dying summer.
© Sue Burley
September2018
