The little girls from across the road
came trick-or-treating tonight
in their witch and fairy costumes.
We’d forgotten Halloween, crude
corruption of Samhain —
which anyway is a different season
here, different time of year.
But we had some jellybeans,
emergency rations in case
his blood sugar drops. I poured a handful
into their empty icecream bucket.
I wonder what they’d have said
if they’d known the smiling old couple,
we have a very black cat hanging about if you would like to borrow him ...
ReplyDeleteLove to! But our resident black cat woud probably object, :)
ReplyDeleteI suppose it could have been a teaching moment.
ReplyDeleteThey were a bit young for that, I think, and mainly interested in the lollies. When at first I said, 'I haven't got a treat, you'll have to do a trick instead,' they looked blank, and then alarmed. Lucky I remembered the jelly beans. :)
ReplyDeletehaunting, smiles.
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