Ode To Carving A Jack o’Lantern
By Dikki-Jo Mullen
First cut the top, make a circle, remove the lid,
Slimy, slick and stringy seeds inside to follow,
Scoop and scrape the cavity amid,
Pumpkin’s walls, making all dry, white and hollow,
Trace the face to carve, then add a candle,
Light surrounds, streams from that rind
Sinister and bright, smiling at its secret scandal
Now the gourd is surely dead,
Orange touches and grows warm like skin,
Covering the skull, the golden head,
Sneers its toothy grin.
Halloween Ode
October 6, 2022 by Dikki Jo Mullen
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