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Autumn again casts her spell

As fleshy fall finds natures beds

Leaves aflame with hues of hell

Yellows, oranges, browns and reds

For all her passion, fervor, fire

Smoldering upon each tree

Not one fruit bearer holds desire

Carries a torrid torch for me

I watch them wilt and wither

Darken, droop and petrify

Slow as syrup, drop and slither

Leaves let go, flames flicker and die

Despite her seductive return

Fall’s cold shoulder turns my way

Gangrene leaf recoils, no one’s chosen spoils

I’m left for winters frigid stay

The sedentary deep

Enshrouds me like slumber

In hazy shadowed dream

A lurid dance in black covering

Woeful haunting wail

Echos throughout the night

in baleful fog drinking forest light

As she drags me under the veil