Smoking in the porch light. Branches creaking over head. Something flapping in the junk pile out beyond the shed.
Haunted.
That chill you feel on a late night walk as autumn’s windswept palette scatters up behind you.
The hurried sound blossoms into a thousand possible dreads and when you spin around, ready to confront the dangers streaking out of the shadows that stalk you - only a wave of leaves breaks around your shoes.
Yellow gold and red.

