Today the artful wind
harnessed exuberance,
filled the early sky with roiling gold,
chased it, then, with dark showers,
burnished leaves whipped along the road

Then momentary blue, then
the full palette of fall’s splendor
lit up against the backdrop
of a gray sky

And I was nourished
by tunnels of color,
roads wreathed in leaves
above and under,
Fed by red, maroon, gold and umber,
eased into evening
by the sky’s
wind-swift turning.

©Wendy Mulhern
November 6, 2014