Crowspun,
has gone 
to fix 
the wheeler,
so he's taken a
spin right over 
to the dealer's
for an inspection
leaving
Scarehat alone
in the swamp
drinking bog-water again
doing the stomp
trying to remember
why he wears a hat
January through December.

4 Responses to “Scarehat”

1. hordak says:
   April 20th, 2005 @ 11:36 pm

   “Crowspun has gone to fix the wheeler” has the nicest feel to it. Just reads so easy. It’s pretty.

2. dragon says:
   April 21st, 2005 @ 12:11 am

   Nice shading on the illustration too.

   My favorite is, “in the swamp drinking bog water”. What else would a scarecrow be doing in a swamp? Drinking bog water, what else! It’s a nice image.

   I like the thought of what’s going on in the deserted places when no one’s there. Fae and scarecrows and such chillin’ in the dusk and noon.

3. Coolhand says:
   April 21st, 2005 @ 7:13 am

   I like the melancholy human feel that comes from humanising the literally inanimate human figure of the scarecrow.

4. dragon says:
   April 22nd, 2005 @ 4:00 pm

   Right on about the melancholy, with sort of a longing or something like nostalgia too. Which is apparently the definition of wistful.

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