We scoured the scrapbooks and under couch cushions for Halloween photos of the cousins, but couldn't find any. But this delightful one will work -- our talented actress cousin Leah, with husband Duane and kids Leah-Jean and Richard, in theatrical costumes.
Happy Halloween! Here's a little poem to set the mood:
ALL HALLOWS
Even now this landscape is assembling.
The hills darken. The oxen
sleep in their blue yoke,
the fields having been
picked clean, the sheaves
bound evenly and piled at the roadside
among cinquefoil, as the toothed moon rises:
This is the barrenness
of harvest or pestilence.
And the wife leaning out the window
with her hand extended, as in payment,
and the seeds
distinct, gold, calling
Come here
Come here, little one
And the soul creeps out of the tree.
-- Louise Gluck
We scoured the scrapbooks and under couch cushions for Halloween photos of the cousins, but couldn't find any. But this delightful one will work -- our talented actress cousin Leah, with husband Duane and kids Leah-Jean and Richard, in theatrical costumes.
Happy Halloween! Here's a little poem to set the mood:
ALL HALLOWS
Even now this landscape is assembling.
The hills darken. The oxen
sleep in their blue yoke,
the fields having been
picked clean, the sheaves
bound evenly and piled at the roadside
among cinquefoil, as the toothed moon rises:
This is the barrenness
of harvest or pestilence.
And the wife leaning out the window
with her hand extended, as in payment,
and the seeds
distinct, gold, calling
Come here
Come here, little one
And the soul creeps out of the tree.
-- Louise Gluck
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