Autumn Hues

Uttered pleadings 
parted from her lips
as the withered foliage
from the winter topiary..
.
Her yellow banquet knelt 
at the septic thorns
of cactus
and lemon green 
gripped the dusty smoke 
of embers in August 

The Antarctic Tundra queen
sighed to sprout
the kernels of regnant vine.