October 10 - 5:00 in Pike Place Market by Sara Crawford

Ooops, I missed a couple of weeks. 

Oh well.

I'm going to do something I rarely do and post another one of mine. I just wrote this a couple of weeks ago when I was in Seattle.


5:00 in Pike Place Market


A woman stacks colorful glass
pipes she made on a table

next to the tie dye t-shirts
being sold by a man with

a grey beard and a blue
bandana. A middle-aged Asian

lady sells fresh peaches across
the street from a barefoot

man with crooked teeth who sings
“Octopus’s Garden” and plays his

acoustic as I pass by. The
natives lie in the grass

in front of the Sound, soaking in
as much Vitamin D as possible

on this sunny September afternoon
in Seattle. I look at the Ferris wheel

and wonder how I would feel at the top.


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