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Dear bundle of straw,
Dear sugared jackdaw-lantern skull
O bald round face & seedpod eyes
as bright as raindrops on a spider's web
(there is something grey that dances in a corner):

Your face, a sere and yellow leaf,
and all the broken brightness of your cheek,
for all your body is scarecrow-soft,
my Feathertop--

There is bone & fibre in you yet.
There is stone & fire in you yet.

FeatherTop!

Date: 2005-11-02 12:53 am (UTC)From: (Anonymous)
My favourite pumpkinhead story! It was my first exposure to the Immortal N. Hawthorne (well, apart from "The Scarlet Letter" but I read that in an English Appreciation class so I hated it). I am now reading a big book of all of his less-than-novel-length stuff and loving it.

/Don
spectrum at DIE.SPAMMERS DIE.DIE ca.inter.net

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