Easter 2025

By Peter Halstead

The spirits of the great outside
Descend into our kingdom
In the guise of this small frog

Who overnight, it seems, has died,
Despite the ready mix of ham and bacon,
Cake and rum inside, the sweets that dog

Our world with acids and peptides,
Available equally to kith and kin,
But not to such child phantoms

As decide to hop and hide,
Who single out a paradise and then,
Undone, give it up for kingdom come.

Easter Sunday, 2025, Kaiholu
April 23rd, April 26th, 2025, Kaiholu