- october gloom

perhaps
         it is halloween
                  or the 13 that falls on a Friday
perhaps
         it is a shattered
                  knee or shoulder, or I do not know

in these last four years
         in october - we go dark

there is silence that
spills over even when
we are together
                           - I mean
                  each year
         to ask
then - it is
         november
                  and its cool
         wind
                  so why
ask & recall
                  darkness