I attended a séance 
at a house in the suburbs 

the medium was a 
twelve-year-old boy 
making crumbs 
of a peanut butter sandwich 

a trail for the spirits 
his mother explained

though I noticed 
mousetraps in corners and a cat on the rug 
complacent 
and nobody’s ghost

SUZANNE VERRALL lives in Adelaide, Australia. Her flash fiction, essays, and poetry appear in Atlas and Alice, Flash Frontier, Archer Magazine, Lip Magazine, Poetry NZ Yearbook, Australian Poetry Journal, and others. suzanneverrall.com