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
