Wind Rules The Landscape

Wind ruled the landscape
conspiring with rain to
dispel the fog hanging like
dingy laundry over the landscape,
washing it off the lens of the day,
leaving wisp vapours to rise
lazily from woodland streams
as the sky's mantle turned from
furious dark purples of nature\s
apoplectic tizzies to a study
in resistance as the wind
hurried and harried the clouds
in favour of blue and gold.
The sun's brilliant orb drying
the cleansed atmosphere to reveal
a vibrant kaleidoscope of
light-shimmering colour;
 autumn leaves turning and twisting
on their loosed stems, then finally
spiralling free in a confetti
rainfall of descending foliage
as the wind barraged the forest
canopy, vacating its screen.