15.1.16



sometimes the muffled sound you hear through a closed window at night defies comprehension
incites your courage to turn an leave 
                                                                                                                               
quickens  stuffs your breath


your brave hasty fingers
suddenly arrested

they linger at the sash lock 
                                             linger  hooked  in the handle at the bottom of the casement

the muntins groan uneasily at your tension

  
with the slightest turn you can unlock the window
                                                                                 the slightest lift will open it 
an then you can see
 

there will be nothing between you and it
                                                                  whatever it is
that is out there
mewling

morose

                                        
                whatever it is it
isnt part of the world you inhabited

before the sun went down


transmogrified


 
                          an your only hope when it enters the house
because it will
                                                            
is to unsee it see through it 
                                             utterly unreactive unresponsive unimpressed


                                                                                                                                                Wau Wauuh   
Wauwhamp    
                     slithers 

                                                                                                                                      

the square tiles on the floor behind it are smeared stained with earth  tracked with soot spore black ruined leaves spurned moss slivered with greyspeckled decay   an a smell that thickens an adheres to the back of your throat
precipitates your choking retching                                                 
                                                        bile an snotgreen phlegm
                                                                                                                              slithers    past
your unseeing

youve done well



an slaughters the rest of the household

untipped                                                                                                                                                   
                by the horrid sound breath outside
the softened glaring glass




0055,  Thursday,  14  1. 16
1346,  Thursday,  14 1. 16

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