Lucifer hired
for witch air traffic control
Halloween only
no Halloween plans
witch left everything
up in the air
condemned witch saved
when the stake wouldn’t light up
her own broom was used
witch has a cow
her cow jumped over the Moon
witch crashed in crater
Bruja’s Baked Beans
witch eats them on Halloween
rides gas-powered broom
one night of the year
the devil’s in the retails
Malloween
confined to roof
mad at missing Halloween
witch knocks Santa off
trick or treaters
ask Jack for orange crush
he smashed his pumpkin
Halloween uber
sends kids to witch’s doorstep
dinner is free
witch strapped to her broom
for fiery death sentence
blasts off to freedom
Gary Davis enjoys exercising his imagination through crafting dark and darkly humorous haiku and other forms of poetry. In a given poem, he likes to combine narrative, emotion, and image in an unsettling tapestry with hopefully a twist at the end. Mr. Davis has published poetry in Tales from the Moonlit Path, Scifaikuest, Star*Lines, Tales of the Talisman, Bloodbond, Illumen, Spaceports & Spidersilk, It Came from Her Purse, Potter’s Field, The Hungur Chronicles, and a sci-fi anthology, Kepler’s Cowboys (2014 – 2025).
Published 10/30/25