Parade 2014 Dennis Flavin
[huge slow flakes of snow float straight down]
huge slow flakes of snow float straight down this windless morning thick on the trucks Joe and Dylan walk in it Joe rolls snowpeople balls Dylan flops down for snow angels first big fall of the season check on the snow person O it’s half the height of the yellow slide! Riley sits on his knees on the fourth sphere Dylan heaves snowballs at him the three take off to find more snow flakes thin supposed to continue all day the little snow person has sticks for arms and fingers both sport Patriots helmets Dylan runs up the hill stops surveys the guys runs on flakes thicken a tiny avalanche slides off the triangle shaped boat cover my black buddy told me her kind is lazy shiftless and wears loose shoes Game on! Stop in Beverly for hard boiled eggs salt coffee and a hot chicken sandwich What’s up with the Pats scandal? O everybody does it The Pats got caught What it is is each team gets nine balls They give them to the ref Fifteen minutes before the game the ref gives them the balls So they could both deflate their balls! Yah. They do according to what the quarterback wants The balls have to be between twelve and thirteen pounds Of pressure? Yah How come it isn’t what the receiver wants? It’s what the quarterback wants Cape Ann Mites defeat Marblehead Mites six to four but our goal keeper chastised by Coach Dad for staying inside the crease is sulky as well as frustrated by the four goals Grampy said he was so so the Marblehead goalie was pretty good Is so so better than pretty good? Grampy remains Mum Before sunset snow becomes rain helmets and heads roll off snow bodies Melissa de Haan Cummings 24 January 2015
Melissa de Haan Cummings majored in French and English Literature at
Bryn Mawr. She has published poetry in a number of journals.
She describes her interests as including, “much small boating around Cape
Ann, love of Charles Olson, Hatha yoga practice since 1969.”
Enduring Gloucester 