The Clockhouse At Halloween
The Clockhouse's A. E. Housman Suite at Halloween
Alfred Edward Housman's apparition
Recites "A quieter place than Clun(ton)
Where doomsday may thunder and lighten"*
A E Housman's ghost does frighten
In the Arvon Clockhouse Retreat
Downstairs, stays a lass with time to write
Upstairs, stays a poet in the A E Housman Suite
Housman's ghost is an awesome sight
Ghostly pacing, floorboards creak mysteriously
The lass disturbed in the night
Hearing strange noises clairvoyantly
Seeks answers in the daylight
Is it a Halloween trick or a treat?
* Poem 50 (L) from A E Housman's "A Shropshire Lad"
Copyright © Michael Sender | Year Posted 2017
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