Autumn Sale by Emma Harding

Hurry - closing sale! Everything must go!

Huge reductions on summer colours -

Unfashionable fuchsia pink, sunshine yellow and lawn green

Make way for subtle bronze, damson and burnt sienna.

Blousy and froufrou extravagance lie abandoned,

Replaced by this season’s stark lines and slender shapes.

The elegant silhouettes of leaf-lost trees, 

The ghostly frame of skeletal seedheads.

The satin soft fabric of blossom and petal is so old hat.

Now, delicate finger-brittle materials are en vogue.

Shivering, gossamer cobwebs and carpets of crumbling leaves,

Rough-hewn, fragile, not meant to last. Everything must go.