A Haunted Abecedarian

A for Attic, naturally, Always something Awful About the Attic. But Below, too, in the Basement or Back Bedroom, Badness Blooms. C for Closed off, Cloistered. D for Deadlocked Door. E for Eventuality, it can/will happen Everywhere. Fear, Fight, Flight or that third thing, oh right, Freeze, Freeze and Find g!d in the way of Finality. G for Gone and Grave, ‘Grave’ itself another word for Garden. Hydrangea, Hosta, Human Hand Hitched out the dirt. Imparted Impermanent Interment. Jellied, Jammed, and Jarred. Kept like an excess of fruit. Lost Like an excess, too. Made, Misused, Misplaced. N for Nowhere to go Now. O for Only that Old Obituary remembers. P for Plucked and Prohibited from all but Pacing Perimeters. Q for Quietly, Quietly (never Quiet enough). R for Restless Revenant, Ruining nights for the current Resident: Sleepless, Spooked, Suspicious, Sitting on the porch Stairs. T for Terrible Tenancy, Truly, a Total nightmare. Unable to Unwind, Under no delusion that they’re Unwatched here. Very Valiantly Vying to drive your Vestiges out. W for WHO are you WHAT the fuck do you WANT? X for Xray eye scan. Y for Yard conceals You. Zip the Zigzag edge of their fear to you.

A for Attachment.