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鈥淗alloween in the Anthropocene, 2015鈥� offers a dark twist on the usually comical and lighthearted holiday. Set exactly a decade ago, the anthropocene described here feverishly persists today in humanity's influence on rapid change. Craig Santos Perez dips into the language domain of Halloween, adopting a dreary tone as if telling a ghost story from across the campfire. Vivid images of darkness spilling like oil and moonlit reflections of dying coral set the scene for not only a scary story, but one of climate change critique.

Perez highlights the environmental issues that society often forgets about when celebrating holidays. While a privileged audience鈥檚 Halloween involves joyous children skipping around the neighborhood, Perez challenges readers to imagine the opposite yet sorrowfully true reality. He juxtaposes children who afford to celebrate Halloween with impoverished children forced to labor under harsh conditions. The motif of 鈥淭rick or treat鈥� haunts the storyline, teasing the narration with a sing-song of discordance contextualized by the struggling children.

He takes a stance on cultural appropriation too, which often occurs in tandem with overall injustice. The costume choices offend and mock certain cultural customs, such as ninja costumes and 鈥渕asquerading as cowboys and Indians.鈥� This elegiac style urges readers to pray for and praise the souls of those struggling during celebration.

Perez does not discourage the happiness of the holiday, despite the pessimistic view he upholds here. Using Halloween as the focal point of comparison creates a larger, shocking difference between the range of children. He emphasizes the invalidation and assault made upon human rights, highlighting that the consequences of human carelessness taints a simple holiday of happiness.

An intriguing line within the first stanza asks us to 鈥減raise the sacrificed.鈥� The word choice and conjugation of 鈥渟acrificed鈥� suggests not that the children willingly engage in sacrificial acts, but are sacrificed by鈥�who? By those who cannot care to acknowledge their difficult lives? By those who turn and look away? Or perhaps, by those who intentionally enact injustice in order to better and maintain their own lives.

Perez鈥檚 statement on environmental injustice shines here, and grows throughout the poem鈥檚 juxtapositions. The harm experienced by these children comes from an ignorance of society to properly address them. He beautifully puts ecopoetry into work here, urging the audience to consider their mark left on the natural world and reflect on the responsibility and ownership they have of it, despite the holiday. His poem ends with a warning meant to follow the reader, even a decade after its setting: 鈥渂ecause even tomorrow will be haunted鈥攍eave them, leave us, leave鈥�.鈥� The environmental effects of today will haunt the next, unless acts of justice arise to prevent it.