| For all my various DEJAVU friends ..
Hallowe'en is always my Personal Holiday, and as such, I extend
to each and every one of you the best of the season (I of course
will Not Be Here that day).
I wrote a little free-verse thing last year I thought I'd include
here:
HALLOWE'EN
The night ofthe year when shadows speak and
leaf-rustle takes on a special meaning. The
grinning faces glowing orange-red from inter-
nal flames bob merrily, their grins masking a
deeper purpose. Shapes glide noiselessly in
the dark postdusk sky, where the moon may ride
like a silvery eye, somehow keenly aware of what
may lurk in dark corners.
At some spots, though, figures dance naked around
a blazing fire, turning widdershins and chanting
strange words in obscure but stirring rhythyms.
Things bend to hear, and what listens lurks just
beyond the threshold of what seems right and
proper. Yet who's to say, on this night, what is
proper, and where right ends? The dark, the hills,
stones gleaming in the orange of distant fires and
the silver of the more distant moon.
Does something stir within a circle? Or is something
outside trying to get within one?
The costumed children will be safely abed when the
serious work begins. And the lanterns will be ex-
tinguished, the darkness making their grins disappear.
The night continues, however, until the break of dawn.
Best wishes --
Steve Kallis, Jr. [(c) 1985]
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