Words for the Chisel (collection)/Autumn Episode

by Genevieve Taggard

Autumn Episode

Be sure of this: the chorus in the grassShrilling ahead of winter in one voiceWill be the warning you are come to passAgainst my will, regardless of my choice,

And autumn's self will ravish me againAnd winnow me and find me lavish asI found myself when fruit was scarlet, whenThere was a voice insistent in the grass.