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The Hollow House

The house is forming consciousness

By Rebecca A Hyde GonzalesPublished 3 months ago 1 min read
The Hollow House
Photo by Kristīne Kozaka on Unsplash

The floorboards inhale.

Something shapes itself from me—

and waits to be named.

Haiku

About the Creator

Rebecca A Hyde Gonzales

I love to write. I have a deep love for words and language; a budding philologist (a late bloomer according to my father). I have been fascinated with the construction of sentences and how meaning is derived from the order of words.

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