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awakening jack - complete

by Kristina Woodhill

carved negative space
orange orb feels probing point
an eye opener

cavity revealed
life is not a stenciled face
thick skin softens scars

honing stone scrapes steel
keen knives keep shaving, shaping
Jack-o-angelo

candy-corn shaped teeth
curved tongue licks crooked set smile
symmetry is mocked

knife painted still life
outside, waiting by the Door
a soul's flickering

10/25/2009

Posted on 10/25/2009
Copyright © 2024 Kristina Woodhill

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Gregory O'Neill on 10/25/09 at 06:00 PM

The Sistine-Pumpkin! Oh, the humanity...(nice, fun). Thanks.

Posted by A. Paige White on 10/25/09 at 06:45 PM

What a plumpkin you have chiseled with five blades. Love how this adds more October to a view from my fireplace. Wonderful writing Krstina!

Posted by Quentin S Clingerman on 10/26/09 at 12:07 AM

Appears to take in Allhallow's Eve in the last stanza (rather than just ghosts and goblins,etc.)

Posted by Elizabeth Jill on 10/26/09 at 02:40 AM

Thank you for bestowing this October Lantern in my mind!

(thick skin softens scars oh how true!)

Posted by Charlie Morgan on 10/26/09 at 02:34 PM

...k-gal, more than a carving; a tribute to every carved pumpking into VOILA! a jack o angelo...lantern, a proto-type of man's mysteries...good write.

Posted by Peggie Eng on 10/26/09 at 11:51 PM

I will think of your poem whenever I look at another carved pumpkin...

Posted by Glenn Currier on 10/29/09 at 04:07 PM

You manage to capture the season and carve out deeper meaning at the same time... bringing smile and wonder all at once. Cool piece, Kristina.

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