Sun, you may send your haze gold
Filling the fall afternoon
With a flimmer of many gold feathers.
Leaves, you may linger in the fall sunset
Like late lingering butterflies before frost.
Treetops, you may sift the sunset cross-lights
Spreading a loose checker-work of gold and shadow.
Winter comes soon - shall we save this, lay it by,
Keep all we can of these haze gold yellows?