Purple Carpet at David Foster Gala - Seal / Michael Bolton shots

September

Everything a little sparser

Parsley with its yellow edges

Purple thistle begins the fade

We have to pull curled lettuce

And although cone flowers 

start to droop and drop

A stand of yellow autumn blooms

appears fiercely as if to protest

The cat begins to limp

in the early sun sink

September always when my heart

begins to break 

- Debbie Calverley