EVP (CW: Implications of domestic/sexual violence)

[fruitbap]

A rhythmic rusty-hinge creak,
Lights flicker on the offbeat,
Her body is a cold wind
He passes through again, again.

Solid fingers grasping, she
Suffocates to syncope;
The trembling needle jumps to red—
Apparition in the bed.

The skeptic eagerly explains
Each mournful moan, each rattled chain:
A sigh of pleasure, nothing more;
Dog tags shifting on the floor. 

Cleaving to the white sheet,
Pipes crackling round a wet heat,
Shadow moving in the steam—
Enigmatic whispering.

Did you catch that?
Play back the tape.

Is it rubber soles rasping
Over old carpet
Or some fast gasping syllable
Puncturing the veil: 

Halt or Hell, or possibly Help.