Lynn Melnick was born in Indianapolis and raised in Los Angeles. She received a BA from the University of California at Santa Cruz and an MFA from Columbia University and was a finalist in Narrative’s Second Annual Poetry Contest. She lives in Brooklyn.

Lucky

by Lynn Melnick

This is no place for autumn
and the pumpkins wonder how they got to this patch
in this lot, in this city.

They’re wincing at the weather, looking up my skirt,
making orange a kind of festive
and not like the sun at all


until we go home; if at home there’s a man named Lucky
then at home there’s a man named Lucky.
People on couch
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