Autumn's Death

Iron blood
the air smelt

welling up

from the 

red, red leaves

strewn across 

like a carmine gash

of rotting foliage,

still dripping

from the arms

of skeleton

limbs and 

branches black -

Fluttering

red flames
of vegetation

fall, 

their dying

embers coagulating

across the

clammy cold

breast of earth. 

© Eleanor Clark

19 November, 2014