Spirit Checking

[Knot]

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Hi Mark,

(it wasn't implying much at all as it wasn't a phrase with which I was familiar.) Still, I'm assuming a variation on checking for the spirits of those (recently, or not) departed? But the singular confuses me. Can't identify who that particular spirit might have be (other than the owner/occupant of the easy chair). Perhaps something simpler, Goodbye, might work?

Much improved by the revision, and the ending, which may be simple but is effective..

the 'chair' still doesn't seem quite right.

My childhood home

feels foreign now. .................. can't see the need for 'so'

The living room

too loud and hollowed out.

Your easy chair

worn bare from hard nights. ........... survivor/relic of long hard nights ?

The very air

rank with hidden mice. .......... aren't mice usually hidden? (This doesn't seem to fit in that well with the other verses, maybe an alternative to 'very' would help? Or, continue with the 'easy chair'?).

Took a long one last look

turned off the lights. ........... like the finality of the ending. Simple but effective. Works well.

Easily scope to add a few more rooms (as TqB wanted) were you minded to do so, just the 'living room' after 'home' leave it a bit on the thin side (but don't change the ending!)

Best,

Knot

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