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importance of the domestic in gothic fiction

more than you'd think
there's nothing scarier
than the dinner table
or a living room
where someone died

(my great-grandmother
in the 1930s
crashed through the floor
while bringing in tea

she was pregnant
and both passed away
when infection set in
with only pre-war medicine
to keep the lasting light at bay)

think on families
with wicked patriarchs
clustered 'round mahogany
while soup is ladled out
a storm outside the tall windows

but whether set
in European castles or
a farmhouse in Texas

regardless if
the wicked patriarch
is Count Olaf
or Eustice Ray

the nightmare's in
the fingers of the past
brushing their icy joints
against walls and faces
Written by The_Silly_Sibyl (Jack Thomas)
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