Neil Ellman writes

Diana in the Autumn Wind

(after the painting by Paul Klee)

She dances to October’s chill

lifts her skirts

a fallen lady of the streets

the passing of the summer’s heat

like hands upon her thighs.

She loves the rush of air

upon her face

the rapture of her skirts

that touch the sky.      

and wrap themselves

around the sun.

Diana feels the northern wind

and knows that seasons change;

she rides the wind

as if she were the wind

herself becoming wind

while sensing death will come     

with December’s snow.

Diana im Herbstwind -- Paul Klee