Las Animas Returns

Las Animas Returns Light intones creeping darkness in unfinished overtures Of fallen leaves scraping against a broken path Like distant footsteps faintly heard in rising mists Of incensed passages leading to a yard In growing shadows where life reflects back to life With dates that start and end in chiseled granite, Stone angels keeping watch, upon this night of hallows, Passing through a creaking door, silently closing in swirling fog, To feel an outstretched palm hovering above the spine – Skin rising up in prickly terror with sweating palms, Trembling hands brush at unseen cobwebs -brittle tendrils Touch red hot cheeks uncooled by moaning winds, twisted chaos, Stumbling in a dance macabre of shades when two worlds collide Until twelve bells releases fiery fingers of unheard screams As las animas finds stars upon the other side of midnight. 10-10-20 Halloween Fright Sponsor: Carolyn Devonshire