POETRY WEDNESDAY: In honor of Halloween (see below), a poem from an excellent, short, spooky old collection of stories and poems for kids–called, I think, The Haunted House and other tales. There were some pretty terrifying scraps in there–like “The Erl-King“–but also this, from Theodore Roethke:

The Bat

By day the bat is cousin to the mouse.
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