like a shadow distorted
stretched and contorted,
a creaking squeaking
floorboard followed
by a muffled thud,
the wailing whistles
of wind in the cracks
of broken down clapboards
and their thwap as they slap against
chipped and dingy peeling siding -
like every ominous overtone,
every melodramatic shriek,
every swell of sinister score -
all of it -
every horror movie indicator
of imminent disaster -
like all of these
is the apprehension
in his eyes
as she pauses
and looks away.
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