JERICHO ECHO ARTICLE

Hallowe’en at St. Sepulchres

January 1996

The witches were revving their brooms in the street Preparing for take-off, with chestnuts to eat Their familiar, Black Rabbit, escaped yet again With lustful intent, from his back-garden pen. Such mobile spirits. Beyond the wall, the graveyard trees Shed their leaves in the chilling breeze His slab lay flat on Balliol’s Jowett. Fosco, born in Calcutta, wondered how it Happened he died in St. Leonards, "interred Here at his earnest request". I heard. No wandering spirits

Author: Liza Picard, Cranham Street


This article appeared in Jericho Echo No 34, Jan 1996.