Issue 5:
Warm
Ron Gibson, Jr.
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Polish proverb says autumn is a widow. Autumn, when the air chills and mourns Sunday hands cupping drowsy flesh under a cotton nightgown. When the leaves transform into the patina of golden age memories behind blinds pulled down on a world she doesn't recognize anymore. When the wind blows in her days, odd worlds, where memories of snow-capped mailboxes and robin's egg blue marbles and Benny Goodman and monsters and shattered, porcelain faces and old women caught in Chicago snowdrifts huddle to the ground, fallen leaves, seeking connection to her evenings in front of smiling newscasters announcing death. Autumn, when the light shifts and she closes her eyes, down comforter pulled over ashes and emptiness, and the rain assures her: "soon, soon, soon..."
~Ron Gibson, Jr.
Twenty-six, residing in Kent, Washington, Ron has appeared in various publications. Upcoming in This Hard Wind, A Writer's Choice, New Works Review, and EWG. Email.
© 2000 by Ron Gibson, Jr.. All Rights Reserved.
© 2000-2002 by Cayuse Press. All Rights Reserved.
This page updated April 23, 2002.