Haunts

© Elizabeth Larrabee

Beneath the fresh bouquets

that Papa always hung

when we moved in

layers of wallpaper clung

tight to dreams

hung a hundred years before.

In these old and haunted houses

with secret cubby holes,

narrow creaking stairs

led to attics

spiced with the musty leftovers

of Beverly's beginnings.

© Elizabeth Larrabee

Earliest Recall | Lady Slippers | How Poor Were We? | Free Food

The Smaller The Bigger | Mud Flats | Speaking of Smells | Random Pieces

Growing Up the Hard Way  | No Bogey Man | Green Apples | Poor Buster

Up and Down | True Friends | Moving | Rosie's Hangout | Crystal Ball

You weren't so Hot After All | Haunts | On Acting the Way You Feel | Amen

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