eerie sound leaks
crackles hearing
scratches unease
gate hinge moves
dry branch wavers
feet tread parquet
a stomach squeaks
wet chickpeas swell
freezer ice shuffles
a realm of dry,
of hidden shifts, some
bespeak dysfunction—
a long haunting
syllable stretched
in a crack— cr-ea-ks
©2017 Ontheland
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In response to dVERSE POETS PUB challenge to write a quadrille (44 words) using the word creak.
Ontheland 
I can imagine a parquet floor would have the potential to creak more than most. All those squeaky hinges are just as spooky.
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No sound can be quite as loud as the one a silent night,
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I’m still on the stomach and chick peas! Great word play!
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Sometimes stomachs make subtle creaking sounds and chickpeas—when soaking and expanding make little sounds that can spook you if you don’t know where they are coming from. Thanks for seeing how the words work together 🙂
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Groovy. 😎😎😎😎😎
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Janice,a fun playful poem on sounds! 😀😀 eek…mind that creak!
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Thanks Annika…it is a fun word 🙂
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You cover a lot of ground and imagination with this poem Janice.
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