Rolling through the rich, black soil that feeds animals, and people, and cars,
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we saw the slow release of color to leaves,
crows the size of dogs,
burnished gold
enough to make one giddy with color, besotted, prone to vanish
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into the maze.
Try it, see if you can resist the prairie in October.
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Glenda Bailey-Mershon is the author of the novel Eve’s Garden (Twisted Road, 2014), the story of three generations of Romani women surviving in North Georgia, USA, during the 1960s. She is also the author of Weaver’s Knot: Poems (Finishing Line Press, forthcoming 2023) and other poetry titles, including sa-co-ni-ge/blue smoke: poems from the Southern Appalachians (Jane’s Stories) and Bird Talk: Poems (Wild Dove). A founder of the nonprofit, Jane’s Stories Press Foundarion, which presents the Clara Johnson Award for Women’s Literature, she edited four of their anthologies, the latest being Bridges and Borders, featuring immigrant women writers.
Weaver's Knot by Glenda Bailey-Mershon 
