Everybody feeling spooky? Ready to draw back the veil between this world and… the other? CANDY CORN? We’ll have a party to celebrate Halloween Saturday starting around 6pm, the Bummers will get up and play some appropriate songs, we’ll have a costume contest, and a fine time will be had by all who let themselves have a fine time. No food specials, but there will be stuff to eat at the party. And come add a photo to our ofrenda!
“Ghosts”
Ghosts are born naked, like their owners
but then they dress with twilight-colored clothes
in the eyes of the trembling girl.
They are puppets we assemble in childhood,
scraps of skin, snippets of voices,
they grow like moss behind our foreheads
and they never abandon us.
They are as personal as voice or memory.
No one has seen a ghost that doesn’t belong to them
that does not love as their eyes close in front of the mirror.
Ghosts have names and surnames,
they are citizens in our bones.
Of course they exist. They wear the face of your fear.
–Luz Helena Cordero, trans. Nicolás Suescún
