["When Neighbors Came Around" was included in my first poetry chapbook, The Lady in the Pink Hat," Candor Press, 1969.]
Remember those days, long ago, When friends would come to call? October was a good time, hazy (Indian summer) anyway, in the fall After the harvest was in. The kids would organize a game Of hide-and-seek; the porch post Served as base, And neighbors solved their differences And arguments face to face, Mostly religion and politics Or they talked about the war And sometimes how to do something Like prune a tree or plumb a door. Ladies clustered together Men in a huddle on the ground That's what it used to be When neighbors came around.
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