The wind is periodically
throwing little handfuls
of what might be rain
against the skylight

The weather is welcome,
even after yesterday’s
almost impossibly round
full moon, and its light
through the windows,
through the night

Today fall has swung wilder
with the excitement
of turning leaves and tossing wind,
sun coming and going,
clouds darkening patches of sky

Now at night
we are grateful for heat
and being inside
and having had some good strides
through the dramatic day.

©Wendy Mulhern
October 6, 2017