Laura Moulton
I am Autumn for Halloween and in the
Light, we paste leaves until the trashbag
Is covered.
When the light is gone, we climb into
Your car and you ask me if I ever
Wonder what’s inside you.
I think of what it is to gut a pumpkin,
Handfulls of wet orange strands, bland
Seeds, autumn innards.
You needn’t ask, I say.
I know then that you are leaving.
People won’t know what you are, you
Say. They don’t know where I am now, I
Tell you.
You laugh then, and I bite my lip. I will
ache when you are gone. All in all, our
Time spent together pasting,
Talking of seasons, of
Leaves that burn rust into the ground,
It is not enough.