Hunkered
Sullen, the rejects
Summer's eager swelling,
Fall's bright, ripe globes
Fading, deflating in the wan
angled sun
Not even food
For birds gone south
Or corn-feasted deer and coon
Wormfood, plowmash, tractor-squash
Unpicked, untricked, untreated
Never to be pie
Unjack o'lanterned
Nothing lonesomer than
November's pumpkins