Stanzas: Monthly Chapbooks October 2014: Halloween | Page 17

CrowScareCrow
Shane Vaughan
CrowScareCrow he sat in fields
of corn with scorn torn on his face
too late to change now, it’s too late
to take the act away, it’s back,
it’s coming through the bracken.
shall he dare to fare against
the talking-stalking ears of corn
which do listen through the weir.
or should he wait to take the bait
of lesser daemons as the seasons
turn from gold to old as
rusty life is mulched and crunched and
recreated in the tension.
CrowScareCrow he sat in fields
and watched the