Index of Haunted Houses

This is a book of ghost stories, and for the most part, ghosts are jealous monsters, intent upon our destruction. They never appear overtly here, yet we gradually become aware of their presence in the way spirits in haunted houses tread over creaky floors, slam doors, and issue sudden gusts of wind. These poems are koan-like-the fewer the words, the more changed they are. The engine driving the sense of haunting and loss is money, which Davis describes as "federal as bone" boiling around us...