Words for the Chisel (collection)/Autumn Episode

by Genevieve Taggard

Autumn Episode

Be sure of this: the chorus in the grass
Shrilling ahead of winter in one voice
Will be the warning you are come to pass
Against my will, regardless of my choice,

And autumn's self will ravish me again
And winnow me and find me lavish as
I found myself when fruit was scarlet, when
There was a voice insistent in the grass.