a smashed pumpkin
lays on train tracks
at Cornwell Heights Station
commuters on platform gawk
It’s nearing sunset
and dark clouds hover above
Autumn leaves still dropping
It’s still littered there
a day before Halloween
los muertos se levantarán en dos días
but all hope and dreams
have been savagely vanquished;
a Jack O’ Lantern
it will not live to be
The Dead
will rise in two days - please tell me how bad is my non-existent Spanish. :D cool poem slc
dias de los muertos is a
dias de los muertos is a Mexican holiday following Halloween. The dead are indeed rising.