Tides of Autumn You lay on the frozen ground That autumn Your last lightning, lost days crowned With all the leaves of autumn On the wind that snaps the curtain, I can fly Lighted by the jack o' lantern's flickering eye... Summer games grow sad played into autumn Childhood seems so fragile In the dwindling days of autumn Winelike, golden-mead-like leaflike, I am free Jack o' lantern cackling in the witness tree... You were undone So they asked me How well did you know her? Can you be sure that it's her? I still stand revealed At dusk in autumn What the years like leaves concealed Bared at first pang of autumn. From the window, I still see you as you lay I could close my eyes, step out, and fly away... I leave fading flowers here each autumn I shall warn my children To beware the tides of autumn