Autumn

A child's excitement
Crayfish in the bucket
Another on the line

Mother frets at only two
With an eye to the pot
A friendly parting

Wood remains to be cleared
A dinosaur smiles
Across the river

The cock miscrows the hour
An October sun
Is at its highest in the sky

Warmth flows into
My drug thinned blood
I am the noonday devil

I am the Lord of the Flies
Butterflies and dragonflies attend
I turn to the village in peace

What news of
Banker's bailouts and
Dictators in the desert?