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Black thumbed smudges smear the sky, asConical crowned witches’ stick-ponies fly by,A harvest moon’s night of treachery. Pumpkin bombs Fall, green, brown, and blue,Splashing stinky blobs of sticky goo,Night’s trick-or-treat grotesquerie. Costumed kids fight into the night,Their slingshot rockets take to flight,Shouting “arrrrgh” in joyful revelry. Spike tipped nails shoot rays of red,To send theContinue reading “Halloween 2025”

The witch began to carve,Scary eyes and crooked nose,But in a slip of her blade,The pumpkin’s ears became her toes. She hurled her blade in frustration,At the mess she had made,With this weird little pumpkin,Decorations now delayed. The truth for the witch,Was she yearned to be free,Free of creepy goblins,And her face colored green. “PerhapsContinue reading “Halloween 2024”

I see you hopping, fluttering,Stuttering around your cage,Anxious to stretch your wings,Tell your story. I have been in that cage,Thinking I was of the age,That everyone neededto hear my story. Your morning’s just begun,No months ago there was no sun,I would urge you patience,You’ve time to share your story.

Lying in the squishy centerof red melon meat,Sweet, cool, and juicy.My arms tucked comfortablybeneath my headresting on a soft white seed, like a pillow bed.I spit the black seeds outlike bullets – rat tat tat . . .to take rootin the grass; to propagatemore pillows on sweet meat beds.From the melon vineto the grapes intwinedinContinue reading “Mini-Me”

Rain falls outside the second-story window,Streaks of water drip unevenly downthe jimmied windowsill.A ladder mysteriously leans againstthe wall of the house where its metal frame popsfrom ice as the rain turns to sleet. The splintered window frame invitesa winter mix to splash the carpet.Two feet away, a girl’s hand lays deathly still,Wet blood trickles inContinue reading “In Cold Blood”

‘Tis not the orange skin of Jack ‘O Lantern,That invites my gaping stare,It’s the sunken black holes of his eyes.Flashing jagged, yellow teeth to bare. A wart-nosed witch sits nearby,Green slime drips down crusted lips,Hee, hee, hee, hee, she wheezes,With darting tongue she begs a kiss. A broom handle thwack to the head,Tossing child afterContinue reading “Halloween 2023”

Fog hangs thick over the riverThames. I strike the uneven cobblestoneswith my silver cane and wipe the mist from my faceas I hum Chopin’s “Nocturne No. 2”to the count of the tower’s three gongs. I peek at a cracked, discarded mirrorto trace my scar and finger-combmy thick, coal-black hair. Nerves, my nerves! I jumpat theContinue reading “Victorian Deceit in London 1891”

I think I might just try that,Yes – I think I might just try that,Swings and merry-go-rounds are fun, you know,So, I think I might just try that. One must step out of the box,Be fearless and step out of the box,Maybe even think like a child,Once in a while, think like a child. HummContinue reading “Think Like a Child”

Life is like the butterfly,Innocent in the bloom,Destined to give life nurture,To leave the garden too soon. This is your life’s station,To flicker from leaf to bud,Looking for a velvet pillow,To its pistil give a tug. If you find no place to land,Your little blackened feet,Fly on to the garden over,For a nectar pool toContinue reading “A Butterfly Life”