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Don't close the book - Saturday Writing Essentials

October 31, 2009 11:48 AM EDT (Updated: October 31, 2009 11:48 AM EDT)

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They say the fabric stretches thin one night a year and think it’s those in graves that rise to haunt with curious rage. But I wait here, imagined fear on brightly painted page. I look in your eyes. Don’t close the book.

Time passes. Ticking clock. D’you hear? Just wait. Don’t close the book. The last bell tolls.

That’s when I rise from paper, freed by fabric stretched too thin. That’s when I draw you in and sketch your face to take my place. That’s when I’m free.

Next Halloween midnight I’ll hold the book tight-closed. Just wait and see.

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Erin O'Riordan Oct 31, 2009, 1:15pm EDT

Excellent! Happy Halloween!

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sheila h. Oct 31, 2009, 1:33pm EDT

Wonderfully written. prose with a lilt of poetry..
and the heavy cloaking of macabre..
it reminds one of Poe..but then once I did say that of you ...right?
;)
i'm swearing off reading books today..just magazines and newspapers

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