Help For The Haunted-Found

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What makes you afraid?

Things in the basement
As he placed the gift in my hands

The shhh....
Roaming the echoing corridors
The detective looked away

Dot
She pulled a plastic laundry basket from the back seat
An easy target
The scream

The car with one headlight
After our parents died
Clatter. Clang. Crash.
No one answered
They were stopping to kiss

Thunder, lightning, rain
Ocala, Florida- of all places
Underlining passages

The Bible isn't racist
What about the rain?
Startling us both

Out there in the dark
Every Halloween
Dainty cups
My mother's mouth dropped

Flashlight, road map
Least of our problems
I simply believed

Ghosts
At an early age
Shhh.
Those "feelings"

The year before
Joined the navy
Ghost of the Future
My fault

Little things
In killing of
A poem?
That afternoon
The birds gobbled and flapped

He even felt bad
That night
Toward the door
Small violet book

The light
Rear view mirror
Someone who knows how you think and feel
Normal things
Out that window

Once they were gone
Sleeping clothes
Of safety
Not about speaking
The answer I wanted never did

Snowbirds
The documents
Girls
Who else

You and you and you
I'm begging
Doll
My mother's old rocker

Birds
Still and silent
The well
A ship taking on the dark and icy sea

Possessions
Confused, not angry
Gone
Sitting on the over stuffed suitcase

Candles
The sudden voice led me
Emergency exits
The initial arrangement

Help for the haunted
Those faint sighs
Faraway places

Colorful flowers
Gone from the driveway
I think about their spirits
But mostly-mostly, mostly- I do.

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