Jack-o'-lanterns lit

by flame flicker and menace 

unruly spirits 

Nature goes out in 

a final gasp of glory 

and we should as well 

The coop is safe when

the rabid foxes instead

turn on each other 

Raised by Russian bots 

and algorithms they kill 

and die for brief fame 

Heroes of stone and

bronze people the parks ignored

by all but pigeons 

Wipe the fog from the

mirror and your mind and take 

a good long look, friend  

Woozy from the soul

of wondrous love that abides 

we swoon, oh, we swoon