Poems of the Week

Orange Dream

by Clyde Always

“A Nebraska man paddled 38 miles down the Missouri River in an 846-pound pumpkin”
NBC News

Bibbidi, Bobbidi,
Hansen of Omaha
grew, from a seedling, the
vessel he oared.

One might assume that this
sexagenarian—
snug in a pumpkin—is
out of his gourd.