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Evil Clown

The Evil Clown Generator, via MonkeyFilter

While Napping in Alaskaon a Sunday in October

Winter crawls out of the woods
and swallows the town.  Shrews slip back
      to the woodpile.  The road
slides downhill.  Black and white tiles
embrace on the kitchen floor.
      Coffee thickens in the pot
while lunch congeals on the plate.
The planet turns through crowded space.
      Dust drifts under the door.

The dog dozes while the cat
dreams of eating it, one black paw
      at a time.  Darkness rubs
my bedroom window.  The quilt
exhales cedar and mothballs.
      In my afternoon dreams, I
ride a rolling ball through star-
cluttered skies.  Bears climb to their dens.
      My sheets pile up like snow.

Halloween Quizzes

Are you a new reader?  Arrived directly from the New York Times, perhaps? 

Welcome!  I hope you will take some time to explore a bit. 

Below, you will find many cat-blogging posts; here you will find links to other cat sites, and here you will find poems, politics, play, and much else. 

Today we are going to explore our Inner Halloween:

You Are a Little Scary

You've got a nice edge to you. Use it.

How scary are you?

And just a few more:

Smooth Green Snake

This fabulous photograph is from Fragments From Floyd, via Via Negativa.

. . . And out of that mundane chore of autumn, in this world of orange and ochre, in that cool, safe space under the flat roof of rock where it would have spent its anonymous days fattening on spiders before winter, a newly-hatched Smooth Green Snake lay coiled in an emerald knot. . .

Election of Doom

From Life Is But A Dream:

                  (what happens)