Anima

One need not to be a chamber to be haunted,
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place

Far safer, of a midnight meeting
External ghost,
Than an interior confronting
That wither host

Far safer through an abbey gallop,
The stones achase,
Than, moonless, one's own self encounter
In lonesome place

Ourself, behind ourself concealed,
Should startle most;
Assassin, hid in our apartment,
Be horror's least

The prudent carries a revolver,
He bolts the door,
O'erlooking a superior spectre
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