Latent Thistle
Aquilus
A curled leaf arid The autumnal mark of time A tryst with rain on my verdurous swarth Fair dew and earth is blent Down to the sodden vale A freshet shrouds her rivulets Moonbeam gleams on wintering waves The vanquished day swealed to isabelline A plume adorns plutonian pallor Verily beauteous dusky tresses Enthralled by silken bredes Winnowing sallows writhing sombrely A funereal valediction looms