Things Teeming with Autumn

And in time for the season, here is "The Haunting", written by Brad Strickland (Oct. 2009):

‘Twas late, late in October,
With a sky low, gray, and sober,
And few crisp leaves upon the boughs up high;
When the wind howled low and lonely,
And the air felt chill, and only
Seven stars shone faintly in the sky.