Thanks for your scary Halloween offering on the Chronicles. This poem reminds [below] me of Rinpoche. It's by [Rafael Jesús González] one of our Berkeley treasures. -Chris Trick & Treat Death at the door, or lurking among the leaves, death itself is the inevitable trick; the only treat worth the having, to love fearlessly, and well. © Rafael Jes Gonzalez 2009 (The Montserrat Review, Issue 7, Spring 2003; author's copyrights)