Best Poltergeists Poems

I move through rooms,
quiet weather
changing air, its pressure.
One drawer sticks.
Light bulbs dim faster
when I’m thinking too loud.

The milk spoils early when I’m angry.
Doors swell shut.

I don’t believe in signs—
but last week,
the oven turned itself on, 

then something spoke 
my childhood nickname,
in a voice I'd buried...

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Looking back
curiously acquiescent
in 4th floor chaos

Looking through these
dresser drawers of
sleepy underclothing

Retrospective shirts
and tiresome socks,
these sheaths of self
more coincidental 
than designed

Everything ajar,
windows, doors
              my dresser drawers

Clues left coyly
in my path
by boorish poltergeists

Half absent,
I...

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