Poetry. Stephen Scaer's PUMPKIN CHUCKING is a harvest of wit and enlightenment, gleaned from everyday situations. Scaer shows impressive formal dexterity, and inventive use of nonce and received forms-sonnet, double-dactyl, Old-English-style alliterative meter; he turns the limerick on its head as it transforms into a humor-laden meditative tool in sequences such as 'Mid-Life Limericks' and 'Classical Limericks.' Scaer's delivery is immediate, simple but never simplistic, laying bare the human condition to reveal that 'The triumphs that we] seek/ are held for their own sake, / and shower us...