Toluca Lake On Halloween

A little Halloween poem

Toluca Lake 

On Halloween 

Brings a nostalgia for this city 

That still feels new to me 

I see the tricker-or- treaters and marvel 

At the place I am

in between 

Being one of them 

And a mother

out to guide her own wee ones,

The transition from maiden to mother 

Singing in my bones 

As the witches young and old swarm around  

Their joyfully cackles suddenly

Making the city of angels

feel like 

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