Carla Galdo
Imminence
The mums we salvaged from a pot last year
are blooming now, with orange and blood red
striated petals that all seem to jeer
how summer’s days are plummeting ahead
to fall. The geese fly over, picturesque
as arrows piercing through a canvas stretched
across the sky. The stores’ hay-baled burlesque
begins: piled pumpkins, scarecrows’ faces etched
with grins. False prophets, these, with sightless eyes,
who’ve never mourned the winnowing of wheat,
or watched a cornfield shrivel as it dries,
or pulled their ragged coats so buttons meet.
We rattle in the winds, avert our gaze,
and hurry through our waning round of days.
Carla Galdo has written essays and poetry for various groups and publications, including
Well-Read Mom, Humanum, Dappled Things,
and
Modern Age. Carla earned an MTS from the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family, and is pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of St. Thomas-Houston. She and her husband live with their six children on a small hobby farm in Virginia.