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The Attic

Greg G. Zaino

He tread cautiously through the doorway,
of a house abandoned ages ago.
but for a trace of bending light,
an ominous, unlit hallway awaited.

Staring up the wooden steps,
an attic room at stairwells crest.
the smell of decay assaulted his senses.

Once upstairs, across the space he walked
to the only source of light.
insects lay dead upon the sill,
as he gazed through a broken window pane,
at the feral yard below.

Sagging remains of a grape arbor.
here and there, puny black clusters of fruit.
beyond; indistinct and defeated,
the rusted artifact, of a once red swing set,
its twisted legs wholly engulfed in thorny vegetation,
a single steel chain sways in the wet wind.

Specters of the dead resided here...

Weak shafts of light illuminated
the place of shelter- sanctuary from the world.
dread shadows were cast across a fly littered floor,
brown stains spot the tattered lace curtains.

Adorning the attic’s corner walls,
indistinct crayon drawings of a child.
standing there in the darkness, he pulled it from the shadows.
scraping across decades; a small desk chair.

He felt the forbidding steps on the approach.
with each clipped footfall, primal dread arose.
turning, with a fear born in yesterdays,
the panic subsides as a face appears.

Turning slowly toward his caller,
he struggles an inhale, pointing to the crayon art.

In whispered words he breathes out.
“...Mine.”

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