Examples of the poets' work

if at a Christmas party

you should walk into a room

and see the woman you love

sharing a bench with another man

leaning over her crossed legs

and into her laugh

to avoid detection

just crawl into your pants

hands first through your pockets

"None is so poor that he need sit on a pumpkin."

Thoreau

To write as a field grows pumpkins,

to lose teeth and still smile,

to survive a frost that blackened acres,

to wake after surgery.

To live without rotting from within,

to ignore imperfections of the skin,

to please a strict vegetarian,

to end the day full of light.

is a chewy

treat, like

toffee, only

and slightly

nutty, like

birch bark,

with a salty

aftertaste as

flint-spark,

best doused

with straight

whiskey or