Halloween Still Life With Birds by Aletha Irby

Straw-bodied
Corpse
Alarmingly
Red-headed, sporting his Rockabilly pompadour;
Effigy gangly-toothed,
Cropped, and
Rickety after the manner of Rumpelstiltskin:
Overalls ransacked from the ragbag by ramshackle moonlight,
Warding away zombie-feathered crows.