How to Make a Ghost
We will make this house haunted
together, bring Bloody Mary in through the bathroom mirrors
hold séances in every room of the house
pray loudly to Satan in the back yard at night.
We will drag demons in through conjured portals
resurrect roadkill via ancient aboriginal rites
print stationary with voodoo symbols for business purposes
make love in a cemetery to arouse the dead.
We will make this house haunted together
push at the thin membrane between worlds until it pops
fill this house with noisy, angry spirits
that rattle and screech until we, too, are dead.
Holly Day’s writing has recently appeared in Analog SF, Cardinal Sins, and New Plains Review, and her published books include Music Theory for Dummies and Music Composition for Dummies. She currently teaches classes at The Loft Literary Center in Minnesota, Hugo House in Washington, and The Muse Writers Center in Virginia.
