The Stump

The stump in my garden By light of the moon, Is upright and sturdy Played like a bassoon A possum's performing  "Song of the Pooka" It is such a beautiful tune. And that stump is a chimney, It doubles as a hookah, Delighting a baked raccoon. Smoke rings in smoke rings Encircle my thumb While OOOMP go the bass notes,  Gah-wooo, Gah-wum. "The Stump" is selected from Pets Given in Evidence of Old English Witchcraft and Other Bewitched Beings (Minneapolis: Sidecar Preservation Society, 2016).