Halloween Fingerlings
by Kristina Woodhillfingers met with stilted nails
painted tips embedding tales
tapping, snapping, trimming sails
scratching at encumbered sands
tracking, pulling dabbling hands
bubbles popped, a sea-saw strand
seaweed shifting side to side
fingers catch at castle's hide
digging at the moat's insides
fingers flowing, fingers floating
fingers bleeding, fingers bloating
finger nails chipped, slough their coating
pretty little fingers, draped
o'er the ocean's waiting, gaped
waving, waving, waving,
sculpting breezes, stiffly shaped
10/28/2010