“in the ruined keep
around its empty fireplace
a shiver of ghosts” …

wailed in smoky puffs
phantom flames just out of sight
and yet heard clearly

contrapuntal shrieks
waltzed macabre with tilted dark
crawling thru the cracks

(the haiku in quotes was another person’s who made the prompt, and the other 2 verses are my reply…
the author is Jenny Gaitskill @jennygaitskell.bsky.social‬ )