Tuesday, September 21, 2021

local fear

the next door neighborhood
forum
is skittish.
nervous.
there's a strange van riding
around,
white with two men
inside.
someone twisted the knob
on my door last night.
i saw footprints
in my vegetable garden.
did you see the fox
in the street, when you see
one, you know there's
more around.
a snake came up my drain
pipe. left a skin
inside my sump pump.
it's local fear, not fit for
the national news.
but we just thought you
wanted to know.

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