Photographer Unknown
There was a gleam in her eye
there was shards of glass in her voice
and as they cut through me to the bone
I tried to scream
but all I could do
was stand there and laugh
in the Witch’s House
last Halloween.
I’m still here,
come see for yourself
I’ll be watching for you
with a gleam in my eye
and I’ll be waiting by the door to
welcome you
with shards of glass in my voice
that will cut you to the bone
because it’s Halloween.
Photo A.M. Moscoso
Good bye Halloween.
I’ll be waiting for your return.
amm
Photo AM. Moscoso
This morning when I was feeding my dog, he did something a little strange.
I’ve taught Hamish to sit and wait while I put his food dish down . Then I point to my eye and say, ‘look’.
He looks me right in the eye. It’s a focus routine I’ve taught him because when you have a high energy and enthusiastic dog, you really do need a way to get their attention back in a snap. I’ve found that ” sit and look” works well in a lot of situations where his ability to focus may go sideways on us and I need to get it back quickly.
After we do the sit and look routine I tell him ‘dinner time ‘ and he dives into his dish and chows down like he hasn’t eaten in about 100 years.
Everything went the same as usual as I got his meal ready- he tried to dive into his food bag, he tried to counter surf, he ran into the living room and found a couple of toys and dropped them at my feet- I think it’s to reward me for feeding him FASTER.
When I went to put his food bowl down he sat on his own, which he does sometimes. But when I told him to ‘look’ he looked over my left shoulder instead. So I pointed to my eye and said ‘look’ a couple of times.
He kept looking over my shoulder.
I tried again and he looked at me and I said ” dinner time ” but he didn’t move. He went back to looking over my shoulder and he did not move a muscle.
Hamish doesn’t refuse to eat unless he’s sick so I was concerned for a moment about that.
I kept trying to get his attention and he kept his eyes locked over my shoulder
Were his hackles up? Did he act like something out of the ordinary was happening?
No, he was fine.
The fact is, as he went through his routine I had the feeling he wasn’t doing it for me.
We got back on track and he wolfed his meal down as usual.
In all, this wasn’t an unnerving experience, but it was a curious one.
A curious incident, a day after Halloween.
For some of us, after Halloween ends we don’t think about ghost stories.
I am not ‘one of us’.
My family used to tell more ghost stories and watch more scary movies during the winter then almost any other time of the year and that includes the run up to Halloween.
I’m not sure why- other then maybe the dark and cold brought out the devil in us.
Onwards.
What I’ve posted here are some prompts that I found on Tumblr that I think I will use to inspire me over the Christmas season – could be fun, don’t you think?
amm
