phasmophobia

(noun)

phas*mo*pho*bi*a

1. an intense or abnormal fear 

of the paranormal, or of 

ghosts

• darkness lit by shattered 

moonlight; a shortness

of breath, veiny heart beating

fast against ribs-

major-minor artilleries pumping

blood fast-faster-fastest

goose bumps brush against skin- hairs

rise

• peer

around the corner and fear

the maybe-creature standing

under the spindly embrace of

the old oak tree

1. an intense or abnormal fear 

of the normal; of

ghosts

• beings on misty legs drifting 

through crevices between

the ventricles the

thallamus running

laps in twisted shapes

without legs

around 

the hippocampus wandering

through the entwining maze of

the frontal lobe through the cerebrum

running gentle hands through 

the soft matter of the brain and out

through the skull

and into the light fracturing

through wet pupils

• there are ghosts, in my brain

making beds out of

tangled neurons- eating

thoughts and words out of

a bowl of synapses,

riding electrical currents to

the front of my mind, telling

me through mist-filled lips and

soulless eyes and

chilled fingers 

that

• the past 

• cannot be forgotten.