Leaf Circus
autumn escape artists
were more numerous than straitjackets.
a Ferris wheel bent from collision
clutched rubble from a tower of Babel.
perky clowns
devoured each other’s antics,
unable to move on,
amid bleachers mangled and
twisted as crispy chips.
a backflip of poodle intercepted
a fire-breathing tiger.
tightropes less taut than wobble
orbited a ruptured tent whose
post was a broken spine.
all of it frozen in place,
the scenes forming a seesaw
readied for the acrobatic of fate,
waiting
for the next hammer fall of gust.
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