Not Just Halloween Pumpkins
A pumpkin
A globe
Halloween memories circle
Candle flickers
Images flash
Scents of long past tangibles
Pumpkin shaped cookies
Guam made à l'américaine
Regimented on baking trays
Red Chinese globe lanterns
Strung over a Kowloon alley
Cut out smiles and triangular eyes
Woody Persimmons
On a small Japanese table
With dark marker grimaces
Black-striped acrid pumpkins
Fabricated in China
Baskets for treats
Images on fresh cards
With messages scrawled
Best wishes from Melbourne
A harmless joke played
A non-existent song and dance
“Happy pumpkin, happy pumpkin”
Where will you glow?
Candle blown out
Good night!