THEME IN YELLOW

I spot the hills

with yellow balls in autumn.

I light the prairie cornfields
orange and tawny gold clusters
and I am called pumpkins.
On the last of October
When dusk is fallen
Children join hands
And circle round me
Singing ghost songs
And love to the harvest moon;
I am a jack-o-lantern
With terrible teeth
And the children

know I am fooling.

~Carl Sandburg~

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