The State of Affairs

The State of Affairsin this small carroll town on an up down crouched street in a wood-boxed backyard you'll find four pumpkins my children spent hours stabbing & styling up for fun they once sat side-by-side on the front porch for weeks with a burning feeling inside of thembut now that the ghosts have been traded for the gobbles the welcoming crew have been cast out into a pile of warm compost they are all slowly becoming disgusting their slanted eyes eroding their demon brows browning their frightful mouths mushing love left long ago & that rise & fall fluttering feeling is just the pitchfork turning the pile soon the hackberry leaves will fall & cover it all long life desires...breaking down realitywe areall just pumpkins-Victor Clevenger

Pagina's: 172, Paperback, Spartan Press