Impertinently knocking on death’s door
riding the rafts of fantasy
darting
as night melds with day
between the darkness and the light

The youngest and most gleeful among us
tear through the quiet streets
a tumble of magpies, a jabber of blackbirds,
rapt and wrapped
in fabrics diaphonous, wooly, or diabolical
playing gap-toothed grinning tag with doom
opening arms to hidden or future identity
intent and insistent on
treats
just beyond
the gauntlet of fear

Do you have insightful, topical or just all around creative poetry that you’d like to share with the Benicia community? Submit your poems to beniciaherald@gmail.com, and they may be published in Friday’s Poetry Corner and possibly online at BeniciaHeraldOnline.com. All ages are welcome to contribute, but the content must be appropriate. You do not need to be a resident of Benicia to submit your poem.

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