Ahmad Shiddiqi - American Gothic

(dedicated to Kim Schilling, a poet friend)

wild
tense
exotic
anguish

castle
almost ruin
ghosts
mysterious

secrets
gruesome
characters
specific setting

a girl
clever
escape
faith's power

soul
fear
deepest
unconscious

first
American
professional
author

four
horror
novels
in two years

Ormond
Wieland
Arthur Mervyn
Edgar Huntley

a pioneer to
Edgar Allan Poe
Herman Melville
Nathaniel Hawthorne

(inspired by Charles Brockden Brown's novels)

Ahmad Shiddiqi

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/american-gothic-3/