Diego Isaias Hernández Méndez, Convertiendse en Characoteles / Sorcerers Changing into Their Animal Forms (detail), 2013, oil on canvas. Arte Maya Tz’utujil Collection.
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
Alan Britt is a poet whose recent books include Vegetable Love (March Street Press, 2009) and Vermillion (Bitter Oleander Press, 2006). (updated 6/2010)