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#7 in the Poetry Potluck Series, celebrating National Poetry Month 2011.
Jessica (center) with friends Kate Morton (Madame Ratowski) and Caroline Stutson (The Kid).
At every party, there’s always at least one guest who knows how to make a dramatic entrance.
Behold Jessica Swaim as Count Dracula’s bride, bedecked in lace and ready for a spooky delicious time. She’s brought along her ghoul friends, Madame Ratowski and The Kid, straight from the pages of her latest picture book, SCARUM FAIR, which was a 2010 Cybils Poetry Finalist. She’d love us to have some blood red punch (Types A, B, and O), a fur-lined cup of steamy, stinky Cat-Hair Stew and a Devil’s Food cupcake. Perfect way to channel the spirit of her creepy carnival and wake up the dead.
Flamingo Bakery/flickr
Up for an eerie coffin race, a bug tattoo, a ride in a terrifying teacup? Madame Ratowski will gladly read your palm for a piece of Swiss cheese. Personally, I’d like Dr. Crunch to straighten out my creaky cranium.
Wait. Is that steam coming out of your mouth? Ack! Your forked tongue’s on fire! Just couldn’t resist that second cupcake, could you? Good thing Jessica brought some “I-Scream” to cool things down. She says it’s sure to make the kiddies shiver and was easy to invent, since she’s cold all the time. Brrrrrrr!
I-SCREAM
by Jessica Swaim
Step right up and get your cone!
One scoop will chill you to the bone!
It’s made with ears of Arctic hare
and topped with chopped-up polar bear
with just a pinch of penguin beak
to numb your throat
so you can’t speak.
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