Autumn Dazzle

It is as though a supernatural force
has enveloped us, saturating our
sensory perceptions, taking us to a
place of primeval longing, a place
both viscerally familiar and yet
bearing no resemblance to the
structures of our quotidian lives.
Here; it is a whirlwind world of
dazzling formation and colour,
taking away breath with its 
surreal abundance as memory
grapples with long forgotten
vestiges of a natural world, 
wind soughing high on a swaying
canopy on its deleafing mission
sending sprays of leafage spiralling
within the forest to cushion its
floor, diminishing crowns and
awarding the forest with 
subdued hues and acrid flavour.
Streams run clear as crystal,
coolly freshening brook trout.