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October Offering
by Kristina WoodhillAll along the pond's edge
aged cattail heads, bubbling and exploding,
rootbeer floats foaming over
kids' fingers, smearing
fluffed white smiles;
longneck tops popped,
Dark Cascadian Dark Ale,
free flowing foam
this side of the Santiam;
corndogs,
smothered in
weird cotton candy casing,
footlongs
getting their relish on,
dripping puffs
of ticklish mayo,
ducks, in tune,
yucking it up
geese lining up,
pointing out the closest approach
to belly splash up
to October's bar 10/04/2011
Posted on 10/04/2011
Copyright © 2024 Kristina Woodhill
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Charlie Morgan on 10/05/11 at 01:47 AM ...k-gal, i can see it all; great summer-closing. and applauding October. |
| Posted by Mo Couts on 10/05/11 at 02:26 PM What a lovely tribute to October! As one who loves autumn best and is an October baby, this makes me smile through and through! |
| Posted by Lori Blair on 10/17/11 at 05:05 AM Oh you have just made me enjoy fall even more so..imagery within this is wonderful!!! thank you |
| Posted by Quentin S Clingerman on 10/28/11 at 11:22 PM A fresh look at October, perhaps the best Fall month , in the USA. Fairs, local festivals, migration of fowl all contribute to the festive atmosphere of October. |
| Posted by Philip F De Pinto on 11/19/11 at 12:46 PM what a marvelous thing language is, that is if it is employed in the marvelous services of one such as you, Kristina, who snap to attention, what would have ordinarily been content to lie in its dorm, dreaming up storms of other possibilities. |
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