It’s a day of contrasts, summer and autumn
vying for center stage. The warm sun
tangos with a cool wind.
Green grasses sprout red seeds.
Late flowers open while the first leaves fall.
But it’s the scent that tells the tale.
This is an autumn perfume, musky, ripe and dry.
It catches you by surprise,
and you breathe it in deeply
to confirm it is what your memories recall.
Something about it makes you want
to fly down the path in joy,
as if something wonderful is waiting up ahead.
And so it is. So it is.