Wordle 28

Brenda selected 12 awesome words from Mike Patrick's poetry for this week's wordle:
gutter * flickering * twitched * vanished
crooked * bottle * caught * bloody
gurgle * sidewalk * thump * carved


The Time Of Samhain
It was the time of year
when darkness came early,
crooked sky tumbling
down thick and black,
like coagulated blood
smearing every small,
out-of-the-way corner
of the neighborhood.
Sprawled on the sidewalk
in front of Frankie's place,
no longer boys, not quite men,
they drank from a brown-bagged
bottle of fierce, fiery poison.
Eerie whisperings charged
the carved silence. Strange
flickering things thumped
and twitched in the gutter,
gurgled, then vanished. Through
his whiskey-induced haze, Frankie
wondered if they would be next.


Notes:
Samhain (pronounced Sah-ween) is a Gaelic festival held October 31–November 1, dedicated to the harvest and the dead. It is seen as a celebration of darkness.