Dear Readers,

 

It's almost the middle of November!

I want to thank everyone (hugs!) who supported my books this year, especially Autumn Poetry. I hope it helped transport you into the many moods of the season. Autumn is still glowing in S.E. Michigan, and I have so much to be grateful for. Still moving forward with House at Dusk: Summer Poems, but don't have a finish date yet. (I think I'm just enjoying the process!)

 

Wishing you the best for the upcoming holiday season! And, I'm watching out for some Christmas ghost stories to share!

 

Jan  🧡

 

Autumn, Portrait of Lydia Cassatt by Mary Cassatt (Wikimedia Commons) 

 

 

The Thing 

On a rare autumn night

Against the strongest wind

Came a lengthening of chin

With a hideous grin.

One shoulder hunched up

While string fingers turned goldie

It clutched enough meadow

To turn pumpkins moldy.

Then it hung for awhile

On a creaking gate post

And shadowed the yard

With the face of a ghost.

From 2013 / Autumn Poetry: A Collection for the Season

Photo: Pixabay 

 The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe - Read by Alan Rickman

It’s already the middle of October!

I’m recommending Sleepy Hollow (1999) tonight with Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci. You can watch the full version on YouTube Movies and TV - with ads (TV style cut).

Parts of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula are already in full color. Autumn is here! Hope you are enjoying the weather and everything good that comes with the changing season. 

Jan 💛🍁

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Video by Paul James Meinke

I love autumn!  

Blog background - Autumn Landscape by William Mason Brown (1828 -1898) - Public Domain - Wikimedia Commons. 

Leire’s very cool (and haunting) version of Wicked Game by Chris Isaak.