The Appearances and Disappearances of Peggy Cleaver [Assignment 2.A]

It was known that Peggy Cleaver could turn herself
Into a rabbit;
Peggy Cleaver, the Witch of the Pines,
The Pine Barrens.
Those who lived there were known as the Pineys,
And put salt over their doors to discourage her visits.
Peggy Cleaver was not from The Pine Barrens
But lived in Pasadena:
A vanished town, an outsider.
An outsider with a Hessian last name.
Peggy Cleaver always appeared
When strange things occurred;
The time that the dog had chased a rabbit
Until it jumped into a house and disappeared
Replaced with the form of
Peggy Cleaver
Or the time that she smacked a man
For throwing a rock at a lizard
The lizard disappeared on the spot
Replaced with the form of
Peggy Cleaver.
Yet the Pineys still spoke of her stocking full of gold
And searched for it the morning they found her remains
In a burned down house,
Yet found,
As always
Nothing, for the gold- and Peggy
once again had
disappeared.