Autumn Overlooked My Knitting

Autumn Overlooked My Knitting - meaning Summary

Playful Substitution of Color and Self

The speaker imagines Autumn as a conversational, aesthetic force choosing yarn colors. When Autumn offers dyes that could "disparage a Flamingo," the speaker asks to see them, then selects cochineal to suggest the beloved and a darker border color to suggest herself. The short lyric links domestic knitting with personal feeling, using color as shorthand for attraction and self-portrait. The tone is playful and intimate, compressing a relationship into a brief exchange about taste, appearance, and how small material choices express emotional affinities.