A poem for October
Nostalgia and Other Lies
Red maple leaf, Canadian flag bright
Oak leaf crayola yellow
Iron between two sheets of wax paper
Label for school project and scrapbook
Read O. Henry story “The Last Leaf” and
Poem Margaret are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving
Set out porch display
Cornstalks, new colored squashes
Ghostly blue, white, orange with green warts
Rake leaves into jumping mound
Unpack sweaters
Set the clock back
The rhythm of fall
Before hunkering down
Brief blue skies, evening dark.
Come, little darlings, let me read
You ghost stories;
The real haunting
Is nostalgia
Banking the fire
What was and might have been.
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