Two fat ceramic pigs perch on my shoulder
Are they Shreks?
No, I mutter, they’re cookie jars
Cracked antiques with stutter paint
My parents, I say, they were into them
There was a time when they were really into them.
-KQA
#NationalPoetryMonth
Tag: poetry
Oh October
Flashes of orange, of gold
A dancing candle’s glow
Sliding arms through coats
Gusts, encircling
When it did gray replace blue?
Closing windows, opening cabinets
So much candy
So much candy
Everything is layered
Everything inside, everything outside
October
How did that happen
So abrupt
With such grace
A fluttering finger, touching the wind
(and still, so much candy)
I’m relieved. I’m unsettled.
