Friday, October 28, 2022

SHARP RELIEF

Walking past, it is 
oddly 
consoling to see 

how the scant flowers 
still clinging 

have begun to look 
ridiculous:

raffishly waving 
on increasingly crisp 
persuasive breezes

and offsetting now,
from their frail 
and threadbare bushes, 

the garish Halloween decor 
which besots these 
nonplussed neighborhoods. 

How I wish 
all those other things 
I always fail to notice—

the moments 
when I'm standing 
right where I'm supposed to be, 

or feeling (mostly) 
contented 

with the small things 
I'm afforded—

could spring 
from the dregs of my 
mind like this

and make themselves 
conspicuous.