(Images that come immediately to mind)
Wind against autumn leaves
Trees on burning with color
Cold air, pumpkins, hot chocolate.
Jackets and sweaters. Breath
puffs like cigarette smoke.
The beginning of school.
five a.m. school bus stop.
Gathering worms on the side
of the road after rainfall
for the class fish tank. Katydids
for the pet praying mantis--
who mimics the wind. Female
mantis eat the male after mating.
Avoid the graveyard grasshopper
romalea guttata. Touch their
black carapace and risk
death like the black widow.
Red bottom, squeeze them
until they pop. Today Katrina's
second landfall. Superdome.
Yesterday, Martin Luther King Jr.
I have a dream speech. Did
it apply to Asians? All men
and women were created
equal. San Fransisco. Butterfly
swords. Nonsense. The buzz
of fans. White noise. Black noise.
Static crackle of the phone line.
The backspace key. Delete.
Redaction. All endings.
Redaction. All endings.
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