Poetry Workshop - Submission #4

Jennifer Pike - September

Photo by Trust "Tru" Katsande on Unsplash

September

The calendar turns its page,
and as if on cue
the landscape’s stage begins
the choreography of a scene change,
subtly—
the audience unaware at first
with muted colors of 
dull yellow and brown mixed
among the green, adding
hints of oranges and reds,
emboldening the hues 
as the days grow shorter
and fog drifts 
in wi…