Poetry of Kansas

October

Autumn dies a-singing,
Shouts a bold "Don't care!"
Sets a cap of orange
On her red-gold hair;
Dons a shroud of crimson,
Flaunts a purple flower,
Mocks the hoary headsman
In her last mad hour.

__Jessica Royer Crafton

Contemporary Kansas Poetry
Helen Rhoda Hoopes
page 34
(Kansas City: Joseph D. Havens Company. 1927)

 
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