Season of the Sunset

Season falls between Summer and winter

Plush greenery transitions to bare branches

Shivering in chill wind that stripped the canopy

Season of the sunset framed, forest taking a bough

Twilight stages dusk’s encore before nights dark cloak

Sunrise glow awakens above a carpet of brittle brown

The last remains of the sun collectors leavings

Rustle underfoot crunched, crackled by steps of erosion

Evolution to winter punctuated by extreme events

Weather forecast or Guinness Book of Records

As the storms are named but not shamed

Baptising the earth with its rising tides and floods