Strip tease

 Sun through leavesgarden waits splice of goldglints spider’s web Japanese peonies raisetheir heads & the lilies Dorian planteddelicate red. Frost on footpathbadger prints hare sniffs breezedogs are set. Russet autumnhere to tease nature’s seductiona hint of branch raw brown earth:a fleeting glimpse of the bare bonesthat’s  winter.