Missoula November
Flash! Flash! the shutter sings
Leaves fill the gutter
I step onto them
shocked by a drop
saved by the cushion.
Kathryn and Sarah and Kylie
grab armfuls
shove them into
each other’s faces
drop loads on
Olivia’s head.
We decide to throw them
up and jump
on the count of three.
From inside our storm
leaves flurry down
and rasp like a plague
of grasshopper wings.
In the pictures, you can’t
see any of our faces.
Leaves fill the gutter
I step onto them
shocked by a drop
saved by the cushion.
Kathryn and Sarah and Kylie
grab armfuls
shove them into
each other’s faces
drop loads on
Olivia’s head.
We decide to throw them
up and jump
on the count of three.
From inside our storm
leaves flurry down
and rasp like a plague
of grasshopper wings.
In the pictures, you can’t
see any of our faces.