Halloween - From a Neighborhood Child
HALLOWEEN
Frightening things
Bats
Just at twilight
Flying
Darting
Low
O’er the churchyard green
At night
Also frightening
The Baptist Church
ITSELF!
Eerie windows
Barely lit
An organ playing
Halloween music
I hate it!
Always Halloween music
Troutman’s cat
Swishes her tail
Around the bullet tree
The deaf woman calls
Sandy voice
“Tabby! Tabby!”
The narrow way
Between the houses
Up down
The alley
Vacant lots
With rotting
Hollyhocks
Instead of “Handouts!”
Big Bill Pritchard
Without a word
Lets the loudest
Contra-bass
Utterly disgusting
BELCH!
You’ve ever heard
Barren trees
Finger
The sky
Poke at clouds
Have eyes
Moon
With rings
Eyes
Other black things
Wind
An old kite
Caught in a tree
Flaps its tail
Looks down
At ME!
Run!
Feet hit
Like shots
Against the wind!
Chimneys
Roofs
With goblins!
Laughing!
Crawling!
AH!
Friends!
The least
Appalling masks
With familiar voices
Behind
Run!
Laugh!
Shout!
“HANDOUTS!!!”
Copyright © Daver Austin | Year Posted 2011
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