OLD RED FARMHOUSE

I will not chase
the spirits out of my
new haunted house built
1909 where they’ve lived
for a century – I tell them
to stay, I imbibe them
with rice ask they
maybe could
help pick up
my socks – but as I
scrubbed and I
rubbed and I
dusted, I made
many a spider
so
homeless.

-Ryn Gargulinski, Aug. 2006