Awe-tumn

In honor of the first day of autumn...

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Awe-tumn

When summer's seams
Have come undone,
Then greens to reds
And purples run.
A palette falls
To forest floor,
And autumn leaves
Leave me in awe.

~Douglas Florian, from Autumnblings, 2003