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Pumpkin's Lament
by Kristina WoodhillAsh leaves at soil level now;
last night small icy fingers
picked them fast and furious;
it was some kind of race,
I got no sleep for all the pattering.
My sprawling vining arms are slack;
pretty sharp crystals dazzled them dead
in the slip of a crescent night light,
my headway to escape this landscape
stopped cold.
I was to the neighboring wire fence,
old guard dog slept,
smelly tight fur ball in small tight wooden house,
my odorless orb yet inside his realm,
my sightless swollen soul dying to get out.
I am naked and blushing,
my pedestrian, safe virgin green skin
refused its youth, demanding
some gawdy center stage notice.
What an act this is! Still life, no bowl.
I beg release before my inevitable rot;
a noose would slip my dark skin,
a cliff would mock my mound's slim edge,
a seagull cannot peck a seed unseen;
let me nourish more than some wormy feast.
A kind god might answer with an artist's eye,
a sharp steel edge;
one ready plunge, lines and curves scribed deeply,
I would reveal my all for such a definition,
unique.
10/28/2011
Posted on 10/28/2011
Copyright © 2024 Kristina Woodhill
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by LK Barrett on 10/29/11 at 03:31 PM I was looking down at a plump and glowing canvas just a few hours ago...how satisfying to know I've fulfilled a vegetable destiny unguessed at before I read this! Brilliant, descriptive, with your usual twisty loveliness...thank ya...lk |
| Posted by Chris Sorrenti on 10/29/11 at 11:38 PM This is great! Fun read, wonderful vocabulary and structure adds to the strength of the message. |
| Posted by Lori Blair on 10/31/11 at 01:23 AM I feel as if I am there..lol..what fun! ha! I am this little child that I forgot I was..thank you! Wonderful! |
| Posted by Dan Linn on 11/08/11 at 12:26 AM Picture this, and a pumpkin that will one day have a face, has perception before it has eyes and purpose. |
| Posted by John Stevens on 11/25/11 at 06:19 PM And to think my grandson and I made a pumpkin happy this year. Great read. |
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