Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Sayonara, September

cleaning the closet
in an Easy Spirit shoebox
our mother's keepsakes
~
donating
to a station never watched
she gets a free mug
~
State Poet Laureate
Late, she
swept in and waved
like Queen Elizabeth,
missing my speech on 'poetic
techniques.'
~
leaving the deck chair
to raise the umbrella
red wasp takes my seat
~
first day of autumn
blowing snow and icy roads
close the interstate
~
one persimmon falls
then two more ... clumsy squirrel
or over-ripe fruit?
~
crisp autumn morning~
white umbrella mushroom
in the dried, cut grass
~
"You're out!"
the newly-fired umpire's
last call
~
cool temp and a breeze
foretell the changing season
bee at the seed stalk

c 2010 lovepat press, Pat Laster
author, A Journey of Choice

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