Spirit Checking

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Spirit Checking

My childhood home
feels foreign now somehow.

The living room
sounds hollow emptied out.              emptied, hollowed out

Your easy chair
looks worn out from hard nights.       worn "smooth" or "bare" or "down"

The very air
smells rank with hidden mice.

Mark,  as Knot said, there seems to be a missing ending.  I actually wanted more about the home than one more couplet.  But I know you like the short form.  I like the title very much.

I'm about to go through the process of emptying out the house where I grew up, so this hit home.  There may be a poem like this in my future.