Indian Summer

autumn

golden moments

painted by frosty brush,

welcomes Indian summer’s

greeting

warm days

tease they will stay,

orange leaves gather sunlight,

their burnt joy blowing in the wind

for hours

an old

barn leaning

into fall’s final heat,

sits abandoned in copper waves

of grass

the sky

is filled with calls

of birds migrating south,

their wings flapping in unison

goodbye

winter

only moments

from making its entrance,

waits in the northern sky to be

announced

©Susie Clevenger 2011

 Picture Prompt: Autumn in October

Imaginary Garden With Real Toads