The Autumn Sonata - Second movement - Metaphor

Bus terminal - there mute pastel trees - medieval haunted 

The tenor sings - drunken - dischord intense - days mellow

Breath - a single contentment - a once opulence - sigh

Civic lined - high arched the silent white quoins

Parliament square - tilts the surrounding echoes - haze murmured

A time - once strode - importance worn - acknowledged nods

Abeyances articulated from the shadows of pedestrian lives

Reaping personal harvest-now-outside - diners continue discourse

The hair just set and jewels wrist poised

At lunch - a blues - ennui of sybarite posture

A woman waits - the smiling waiter - peak hair

Black and white and efficiently briskly gliding 

David takes our order - confit du canard - 'Cheeps'

White - shirt leaning forward - notepad - presence beside me

'Pardon' ' - 'With Cheeps ' - ' Yes please '  -I think 

Watch him walk away - watch him walk away

A spring blossom - the turning flower -wisdom plays 

- now a Tanist's time - the oak leaves passed 

- as leaves begin to turn - burnished - then fall

David's in 'Spanish' performance - hopes on a Paris trip

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

a big wow, on the wording and the flow....you set such a scene...autumn echoes with inspiration...I'd like to order some from you...you do it so well.

I am still digesting this piece as far as overall thematic view.

[Michael Oliver]

Thank you - made up from images a day I spent in a neighboring County Town - Hertford - brought back memories of my childhood while Mahler played in my ears- and a lunch of Duck confit in a Baguette - the crucial line is 'the oak leaves passed' does this mean a wreath or actual leaves - the county is full of oak trees I noticed. Tanist comes from my reading of Robert Graves on mythology etc etc Michael