
“Waiting”
by Liz Bennefeld
I’d never noticed
How an old house creaks
As though someone were walking
Up the stairs
Or how the wind can imitate
A knocking at the door
’til now.
Copyright © 1978/1991 by Elizabeth Bennefeld. Audio edition published in the 2006 SFPA Online Halloween Poetry Reading (Copyright 2006, by Liz Bennefeld. All rights reserved).