The House on the Right of Way

There is a house on the right-of way called the Alley Steps and it is a house that is unpainted, there's a hole in the roof where a raccoon lives, and if you were a kid when kids actually read Edgar Allen Poe and believed in ghosts this would be the house they would believe was haunted. It is the kind of house that if you were Scout Finch you would expect Boo Radley to be peering out of the curtainless bedroom window at you, it would be the house that you would expect to be full of voodoo and sceances and you might expect bats to be hanging upside down in the haunted hallway. But the yard is another matter. The yard is aburst with scilla blue, a carpet of color that astonishes, that seems as though the artist spilled all his cobalt blue paints on the ground. Dandelions also bless the yard with their yellow. The person that lives in this House of Usher might just have their priorities right I expect. It certainly makes one mindful of an artist that spends his extravagant pallette upon even the most humble, albeit haunted place. Perhaps it is indeed a ghost that lives there; and if a ghost, I suspect it might be a ghost who was the teacher of the impressionistic truth in a Claude Monet.