Malak Mattar, Untitled (detail), 2024, charcoal on paper
October
October rolls in the grass
spilling apples
from its lips
Hands riding in automobiles
pull at the sky
A lawyer wakes up
watches a woman walking
across her back lawn
Someone drifts to a kitchen faucet
bumps against spoons
A hidden record’s music
peels off the walls
The wind carries a thistle
as brown shoes run through a field
searching for October
playing in the dark grass
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Alan Britt
Alan Britt is a poet whose recent books include Vegetable Love (March Street Press, 2009) and Vermillion (Bitter Oleander Press, 2006). (updated 6/2010)
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