Bow to Autumn

      sunflowers
bow to autumn
      ripening 
   just in time

   for little birds 
celebrating ripe 
      sunflowers.
   winds ring
      our big
wind chime.

   i look out 
the window
      watching 
      those birds,

   and see them
thrown about 
   by the wind
      like leaves
dancing with
      a breeze.

the sunflower's 
      gone now,
   harvested
   and dry.
little birds have 
   moved on;
little wings 
      will fly.