except for screams by Wanda Morrow Clevenger

a few times

silverfish

appeared

in the bathtub

returned to 

the Devonian

                 between

Kleenex

fingers

spiders 

4 and 5 inch

huge hairy

lurched

crept from

hellish crypts

fed on 

silverfish

as they 

neared

the light

bashed with shoe 

hairbrush whatever 

annihilation 

was at hand

mice ran

straight up

drapes

across the

rod across 

counter tops

their necks

snapped

4 and 5 in

the night

water bugs

clocked 210 mph

made inverted 

midnight maneuvers  

petered out

dropped cold

on asleep cheeks

except for

screams

I kept my mouth  

closed

Author bio: 

Wanda Morrow Clevenger lives in Hettick, IL.  Her debut book This Same Small Town in Each of Us released in fall of 2011.  She recently received her 200^th publishing credit in 76 print and electronic markets.  Access to her blog magazine with links to published work, visit: http://wlc-wlcblog.blogspot.com/.