Halloween Already?
October 31, 2012 |
| Photo courtesy Karolina Michalak |
I’m not alone in noticing how time accelerates as we grow
older, and as the seasons grow ever more brief the holidays are gone in a
wink. This poem by Nancy Price about
Halloween catches a little of that.
She’s an Iowan whose poems are so heartfelt, clear and useful that we
could run them every week and none of you would complain. [Introduction by Ted
Kooser.]
Trick or Treat
The ghost is a torn sheet,
the skeleton’s suit came from a rack in a store
the witch is flameproof, but who knows
what dark streets they have taken here?
Brother Death, here is a candy bar.
For the lady wearing the hat from Salem :
gum.
And a penny for each eye, Lost Soul.
They fade away with their heavy sacks.
Thanks! I yell just
in time.
Thanks for another year!
4 comments
....it caught up with us too. We were carving our pumpkins when the first Trick or Treaters came knocking! Hope you had a wonderful evening!
ReplyDeleteLove it! We don't do much around here, or have many visitors, because all the kids head downtown instead of on our kinda dark rural road.
ReplyDeleteI do miss seeing them, and I remember how carefully we would choose our costumes when we were little.
Kathy M.
Thanks, Kelly--we did have a good evening. Hope you did, too!
ReplyDeleteKathy--My son was like that. He hated to commit to a costume, so we were always scrambling at the last minute.
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