Fall Frenzy 2024

 

                                                                                                                    Photo #1; Credit: Unsplash via Marko Blažević 

LENA  AND THE WITCH

  

To Lena, it was obvious a witch had visited. 

Catnip was ripped. Basil was snipped. Stinkhorn ran wild in the garden.

“Perfect,” said Lena. “I’ll be a witch for Halloween.”  

She lit a wick and candlelight flickered, winking on trout lily, trillium, and teaberry,

flashing at owl-hoot and fox-scream,

quivering at moth-flutter, deer-snort, and wind-whisper—

beaming on the trail of bootprints.

As mugwort and tinder conk smoldered, candlelight flickered,

dancing on dead leaves and stink weed,

falling on kudzu that smothered a hut.    

Then…door-creak. Eyes peek. Feet sneak inside.

A crow guarded boots, cape, and hat while Lena hatched a greedy plan.

“I’m going to be wicked chic.”

“No-no. Mustn’t take,” cawed the crow. “But stay. I insist. Don’t resist. Take a cup of basil-catnip tea.”

Lena snoozed as the witch shed black feathers and chanted a magical spell:

"Eye of newt. Fairy flute. Jaws of whale.

Grow claws, a tabby coat, and a tail.”

Candlelight flickered, glinting off bat flower, elf cap, and dragon’s breath,

glowing on night-hoppers, vine-creepers, and fur-clingers. It gleamed upon the garden,

glistening on stinkhorn, basil, and catnip.  

“Happy Halloween,” said the witch.

“Likewise,” said Lena. And she snuffed out the wick with her paw.

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