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October 8, 2024

The devil’s new October. Everything has a fever. I am too pure for you or anyone

But the Trader Joe’s clerk was kind to me. Appreciated my help with the bagging. Someone else liked my hair. World of blessings, dream kingdom, day after day—

“You have much gold upon your head,”
They answer’d all together:
“Buy from us with a golden curl.”

And I was given fruit to eat.

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Texts and images copyright (C) 2022 Pauline Kerschen. Layout adapted from the Single A Tumblr theme by businessbullpen. The Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) has zygodactylic feet, leaving X-shaped tracks with ambiguous direction. The Pueblo and Hopi used the X symbol to mislead evil spirits. Border folklore in the early twentieth century held that a roadrunner would lead a lost traveler back to his path. In Mexico the roadrunner is known as paisano, countryman.