Wordsmith Wednesday: Hist Whist

Happy Halloween!  We have been enjoying a book I bought a few years back at a little book shop in the Lancaster public library.  

It has lovely illustrations by Deborah Kogan Ray for the poem, "hist whist" by e. e. cummings:

hist      whist

little ghostthings

tip-toe

twinkle-toe

little twitchy

witches and tingling

goblins

hob-a-nob     hob-a-nob

little hoppy happy

toad in tweeds

tweeds

little itchy mousies

with scuttling

eyes    rustle and run     and

hidehidehide

whisk

whisk     look out for the old woman

with the wart on her nose

what she’ll do to yer

nobody knows

for she knows the devil     ooch

the devil     ouch

the devil

ach     the great

green

dancing

devil

devil

devil

devil

        wheeEEE

 Caedmon and Owen both love to help say it along with me - especially "whEEE!"

This evening after some warming and yummy chicken soup, we went out with a motley assortment of people and critters

 for a bit of trick-or-treating

 in Lauren and Steve's neighborhood.