INDEX OF HAUNTED HOUSES

The weather is

in handshakes in here.

Bribes pass

from cloud to

cloud: a black

coin or two,

a Nebraskan letter

to meteorology.

Doors open

like brackish brackets.

Dusk is an interstate

coin locker.

I see a slow-burning spleen

of light, a rose-

bush of bones, calm hands.

Don’t we all see

the lights of a city

from farther than we’d like?