Pandemonium-
unwittingly admitted-
a gathering of cohorts
colonizing
corners of our mansion
an unkindness
like winter screeching at the door
shutters slapping stone
an orchestration of withering hardship

despite courageous impediment
a perfidious peregrination-
witlessly invited-
creeps
tentacled and toxic
through the cracks
of complacent conceit
mocking the complicity
of the unmindful unmasked