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!