Jessica Amanda Salmonson Poet Rhyme

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).

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Caren Krutsinger March 19, 2018 at 12:20 AM Delighting a baked raccoon! You already had me at Opossum. Very nice. Jessica Amanda Salmonson March 19, 2018 at 2:33 PM Possums make lovely pets except for their lifespans, three years, awfully short for such a large animal.