{"id":10604,"date":"2012-10-22T15:37:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T19:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.berkshirelinks.com\/?p=10604"},"modified":"2012-10-22T15:37:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T19:37:12","slug":"trick-or-treat-poem-by-nancy-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/trick-or-treat-poem-by-nancy-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Trick or Treat, poem by Nancy Price"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page-header\">\n<h1>American Life in Poetry<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Column 396; by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate<\/strong><br \/>\nI\u2019m not alone in noticing how time accelerates as we grow older, and as the seasons grow ever more brief the holidays are gone in a wink. This poem by Nancy Price about Halloween catches a little of that. She\u2019s an Iowan whose poems are so heartfelt, clear and useful that we could run them every week and none of you would complain.<\/p>\n<h2>Trick or Treat, poem by Nancy Price <\/h2>\n<pre>\nThe ghost is a torn sheet,\nthe skeleton\u2019s suit came from a rack in a store\nthe witch is flameproof, but who knows\nwhat dark streets they have taken here?\nBrother Death, here is a candy bar.\nFor the lady wearing the hat from Salem: gum.\nAnd a penny for each eye, Lost Soul.\nThey fade away with their heavy sacks.\nThanks! I yell just in time.\n                             Thanks for another year!\n<\/pre>\n<h3>about American Life in Poetry<\/h3>\n<p>American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright \u00a92007 by Nancy Price from her book of poetry Two Voices and a Moon, Malmarie Press, 2007. Reprinted by permission of Nancy Price and the publisher. Introduction copyright \u00a9 2012 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction&#8217;s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006. We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Life in Poetry Column 396; by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate I\u2019m not alone in noticing how time accelerates as we grow older, and as the seasons grow ever more brief the holidays are gone in a wink. This poem by Nancy Price about Halloween catches a little of that. She\u2019s an Iowan whose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}