Issue #11 October 27, 2001 Pump-ku at Munson's pumpkin patch, Boulder, Colorado, featuring: Patrick Lynn, Jonathan Machen, Sara Benson
photos and layout: Jonathan Machen
how many people
have hidden in the corn maze
and taken a pee?
above the cornfield
willow with blackbirds for leaves
whirring and clucking
each one in its
varied shape and size
dignity of pumpkins
dark figure crouches
in the field of dead corn stalks
jonathan sketching
i can see longs peak
over a field of pumpkins
warm october day
taking time to feel
beauty of fall, pain of war
a haiku moment
hard to tell jonathan
from the scare crows watching over
the pumpkin patch
grandma in slippers
and a large orange-green pumpkin
covered with warts
lying in the road
unidentifiable
furry body part
only carcasses of corn stalks
and old ears of corn
not for eating
having created
a field full of strange, orange objects
pumpkin vines wither
spandex - clad bikers
zip past the field littered with
fat dull pumpkins
can you believe it?
shes going for a hayride
in her wedding dress
delighting ourselves
with pumpkins, gourds and squashes
autumn abundance
late autumn weekend
SUVs head back to town
loaded with pumpkins
deflated pumpkin
lies flat in the field
hidden from shoppers
above the corn stalks
blue sky drops
into the curved mountain silhouette
teenage vampire
chases her labrador
through the pumpkin patch
solo/group kukai drawing/writing/photography jonathan machen