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Merlin
post Jan 1 09, 12:25
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Here's a shorty, note that the writer and narrator are not the same.



Poltergeist

When evening shadows grope
over the boxwood hedge,
screeches careen into my ears
here in this blue-lit room
where twilight shelters me
but still that poltergeist appears.

There’s nowhere left I can run
and nothing more for me to do.
What’s that? I hear footsteps. *
There’s nobody here!
No-one is near,
no dreaded incubus, **
no evil voodoo spell,
no booze to paralyze my fear.


* formerly 1 sentence with comma.
** originally phantom incubus,
leading to probable tautology, thx Jax


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JaxMyth
post Jan 4 09, 18:26
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Hi Merlin,

Can a screech careen
Yes, if it’s bouncing off walls.
ca·reen (k-rn)
v. ca·reened, ca·reen·ing, ca·reens
v.intr.
1. To lurch or swerve while in motion.
2. To rush headlong or carelessly; career: "He careened through foreign territories on a desperate kind of blitz" Anne Tyler.
3. Nautical
a. To lean to one side, as a ship sailing in the wind.
b. To turn a ship on its side for cleaning, caulking, or repairing.
v.tr. Nautical
1. To cause (a ship) to lean to one side; tilt.
2.
a. To lean (a ship) on one side for cleaning, caulking, or repairing.
b. To clean, caulk, or repair (a ship in this position).
n. Nautical
1. The act or process of careening a ship.
2. The position of a careened ship.
[From French (en) carčne, (on) the keel, from Old French carene, from Old Italian carena, from Latin carna; see kar- in Indo-European roots.]

[b]Therefore, I still question the usage.
[/b]

Using twi-lit would clash with twilight right below it.

“where twilight shelters me
where the poltergeist appears”
Hmmm – wears out the wheres, dontcha think?

What I meant was:
here in this twi-lit room
where the poltergeist appears.


Do poltergeists have footsteps?
Is it the poltergeist making the footsteps?
One assumes from the text that it is.

You feel a draft?

Regards,

Jax


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