Wind Will Blow

shall you

stunned to see

the sweet face of
September

to smell

the sweat-soaked shirt

she'll shed

to hear her breathy

mezzo

her sotto voce

admonition

ask

what does it augur

if Autumn

o p e n s

with a thundery rain?

things fall

out of our hands

  now

 find your updraft

 cloudward flight lifts
higher

a life
driven by desire

meets its central fact

wind will blow
breath must expire

©2013 Ravenna Taylor