CENTERVILLE
Seven pink flamingos,
one for each day of the week,
smirk at every passerby
commuting through your town.
Every Halloween they don,
(just for the “hello-ween” of it!),
those ghostly pillowcases cut
with holes for their painted eyes—
mimicking trick-or-treaters,
who wander on their candied ways
to doorsteps where their names are known,
despite their best disguise.
Lee Evans lives in Bath, Maine and works for the local YMCA.