Leslie McGrath: At a Roadside Stand in Salem, CT

I bought a half-peck

of Macouns

and a pumpkin

whoopie pie

big as a pumpkin

I’d pulled in

for a closer look

at the crowd

in the parking lot—

horses frozen

in mid-buck,

black gryphons squatting

in a sparrow line

and backed against

the chain link

the Virgin Mary

leaning hard

on the Statue of Liberty.

Copyright 2017 Leslie McGrath