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downtown haberdashery

by Kristina Woodhill

brown suits
red suits

orange suits
yellow suits

frantic search
downtown parking

pell-mell
sidewalk to sidewalk

dervish
the pedestrian

heels scuffed
head stands

back flips
flash mob

fluttering
like the

f-f-f-f-first
day
on the job

wind tested
store fronts

shop owners
peer out

grazed

crazed

dazed

with
treeless
cracklings

11/19/2010

Posted on 11/19/2010
Copyright © 2026 Kristina Woodhill

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Gregory O'Neill on 11/19/10 at 06:23 PM

This is fun, but for some maybe a sad truth. Retail is always either feast or famine (with a side order of "treeless cracklings." Delighted. Thanks.

Posted by Don Matley on 11/19/10 at 09:45 PM

I like this work. I like the economy of your words. You paint images with quick short strokes and with little paint. Love "Dervish the pedestrian". Very nice pace. Fun to read aloud. merci bien

Posted by Paul Lastovica on 11/19/10 at 11:54 PM

an overage of busy bodies turned loose. And the real chaos has yet to begin.

Posted by George Hoerner on 11/20/10 at 02:16 AM

The two month rush has begun and you hit it on the nail's head.

Posted by A. Paige White on 11/20/10 at 05:20 AM

Perfect description. You remind me to be grateful in my window seat. Perfectly.

Posted by Laura Doom on 11/21/10 at 11:29 AM

A frenetic foretelling by festival of the lexical -- forza cadenza Kristina...

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