Wheel of Fortune

October

I was talking to a friend the other day and used the phrase "hunker down". My friend wondered if it was an actual word--we always use it in regard to "hunkering" down for a hurricane. Poet Donald Hall uses it to describe October, though not like a Floridian October. I love how the simple colors of red and blue, white and brown, "pop" in this poem.

The Hunkering

In October the red leaves going brown heap and
scatter
over hayfield and dirt road, over garden and circular
driveway,

and rise in a curl of wind disheveled as
schoolchildren
at recess, school just starting and summer done,
winter's

white quiet beginning in ice on the windshield, in
hard frost
that only blue asters survive, and in the long houses
that once

more tighten themselves for darkness and
hunker down.



Thus far this hurricane season we have had no need to hunker down, there has nary been a bad tropical storm.

I have chosen to celebrate the month of October by writing a Halloween poem a day for a week--thanks to Acme 's contest:

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And the end of the month brings my HALLOWEEN BIRTHDAY !


I also like what revdbob did with the prompt of "vampire". "Vampires"