Poem: Leaf Circus

 

Leaf Circus

 

Ferris wheels 

bent from collision

clutch rubble from a tower of Babel.

 

a scamper of clowns 

devour each other’s antics,

unable to move on,

amid bleachers toasted and

twisty as crispy chips.

so many autumn escape artists,

much more numerous 

than the floppy straitjackets. 

a backflip of poodle 

intercepts a fire-breathing tiger.

 

strings less taut than wobble

moor a ruptured tent whose

post is a crooked stegosaur spine.

 

all of it bound to anticipate:

scenes which form seesaws

primed for acrobatics, 

waiting

for the next hammer fall of gust.

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11/13 .. added  word

11/8/25 ... tough... 

11/7/25 ... many mods, difficult

11/5/25 .. mods all day .. changed poem to present tense, etc.