SEANCE ON AN IMAGINARY NIGHT

I can still remember the accident in 1972.

On a wet and rainy afternoon
The streets were wet and slick
As my nephew, Rutger's luxury automobile
Dovetailed into a Toyota
on Balboa and Marina Drive,
At the pinnacle of his life.

His dear wife, Czarina
Held a seance that very night.

The lights in the chandelier were dimmed
The room was dark as could be.

A single candle with flames ablaze
Alit in front of us three.

She queried to her contact,
Just a message to my dear husband, Rue.

When all of a sudden the china teapot
Flew across the room
Creating a ghastly, ghostly sound
Pandemonium was everywhere
As the dishes began to spin and twirl
Right above our heads.

An eerie light shone on the wall
Revealing a relic tapestry
Bereft of several threads
Our eyes glued to that very spot
With bedazzlement and dread.

For now a ghostlike shadow
Played upon the woven cloth
Exuding and iridescent mucus
The desecrater of the cross.

The room was as cold the winters ice
exhalations of our breath could be seen.
And a terrible aromatic stench
with an essence of decay
expelled into the darkened room.

When all of a sudden, Czarina collapsed
And the devil was by my side.

My face became white and pasty
And I shivered from my head to my toes.
I summoned all of my courage
And commanded the phantom to go.

Just at that very moment,
My heart beating very fast
Czarina elevated upward
In mid-air she hung,
quite aghast.

As discordant musical chanting
And the triumphal strings of a harp
Permeated at our senses
and piercing at our hearts.

And all of a sudden she vanished
With a wild and mournful cry.

And there in her chair lay a crucifix
And the archangel was by our sides.

I could hear Rutgers voice from a distance
Echoing through a cloudy haze,
Czarina, you are now by my side.

And drifting down from the ceiling
A postcard from the Nile
beaming with rays of sunshine,
Czarina saying goodbye.


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WORDS USED: Streets nephew Rutgers luxury
Automobile dovetailed Toyota Balboa Marina
Pinnacle Czarina seance ablaze queried husband
China teapot room ghastly ghostly pandemonium
Dishes eerie shone relic tapestry bedazzled
Ghostlike exuding iridescent mucus desecrater
Terrible aromatic decay expelled collapsed devil
White pasty phantom elevated upward discordant
triumphal harp crucifix archangel essence
Echoing postcard sunshine rays