Antigonish
Antigonish is a short poem by Hughes Mearns that lingers in the mind long after the final line. A speaker repeatedly encounters a man upon the stair — a man who, impossibly, isn't there. The phantom returns night after night, waiting in the hallway at three in the morning, vanishing the moment anyone looks. Equal parts unsettling and darkly comic, the poem builds a creeping sense of dread through its sing-song repetition, culminating in that infamous, jarring slam of a door that refuses to stay shut.
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