The murderer,
on his way to work,
stops to admire the wisteria
framing his doorway,
and waves
to the bug-eyed azaleas.

©2007, Dorothea Grossman

Dorothea Grossman lives and writes in Los Angeles, California, and has a poetry CD with trombone improvisations by Michael Vlatkovich, Call and Response. Two of her poems appear in our other seasonal anthologies: “Summer: Three Ways” is in the summer collection, and “In the Library” is in the autumn collection.

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