LaVern Spencer McCarthy

ghosts

On rainy nights old ghosts appear.
They murmur at the eaves and sigh
but do not mean to cause me fear.
On rainy nights old ghosts appear.
My long-lost friends of yesteryear,
they cannot bear to say goodbye.
On rainy nights old ghosts appear.
They murmur at the eaves and sigh.

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LaVern Spencer McCarthy has written and published twelve books of poetry and fiction. Her work has appeared in Writers and Readers Magazine, Meadowlark Reader, Agape Review, Bards Against Hunger, Down in The Dirt, The Evening Universe, Fresh Words Magazine, Wicked Shadows Press, Midnight Magazine, Pulp Cult Press, Metasteller and others. She is a life member of Poetry Society of Texas. A poem she wrote was nominated for the 2023 Push Cart Prize.