Persephone's Fall Necklace

Strung together for remembrance
of sunny, autumnal days lost

red-leaf goblets
glints of gold
orange flutters
bronze add-ons
fruity tastes
tinted breezes
crispy air
prismatic dew drops

collected lingeringly
clasped with luminous moments.

Fall Foliage #22

Start the color parade
eye-catching, vivid

glittery, mesmeric
in a north, leaf-chasing quest

ubiquitously brilliant
amid steadfast evergreens

allées of gilded trees

each outsparkled by the next

dazzling, sunlit stretches
of saturated beauty

then some stripped, bare branches
within once blazing patches

dampened soon at northernmost end
to extinguished, gray-green finish.

Brigadoon En Québec

At the edge of the Seaway

with beaucoup de tranquilité

midst long hayfields, tawny marshes

anchored deep by ancient rock

peopled by contented tribes

fishers, farmers, and peace-seekers

Québeçois Victorian abodes

harmonious with beguiling sights

overhead vees of snow white geese

hillside surprise of backlit poppies

splendid, technicolored trees

upon stunning gray-white cliffs

beach-trapped, glacial remnants

as beneficent sculptures

and clair de lune in total eclipse

within its resounding silence

star witness to this enchantment
chez le village de Kamouraska.