The Witches Fly

The witches fly
Across the sky,
The owls go,"Who? Who? Who?"

And the black cats yowl
And the green ghosts howl,
Scary Halloween boo!

-- Nina Willis Walter (1900 - 1977), American author and poet, in: Jill Bialosky History of a Suicide: My Sister's Unfinished Life (2012), p 104