From the collection published in 2021, The Immediate and No Sooner.
Waited All My Life
took shelter
in a rotting house
that belongs
don’t know who
and I can’t believe my eyes
here’s a secret room
behind the
bookcase so of course
I enter
just avoid
falling through the floor I am
living out a dream
all right and
here’s more luck just look
that creepy
old portrait
its eyes follow me (Scream of
sheer terror pleasure)
1/2/20
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Claudia McGill Writes Poetry, Did You Know That? 
Great poem and I have to say that the name of the collection it is from is awesome!
Thank you!
The kind of place you describe is the stuff of my dreams! I have always wanted to find a secret room. In my teens, I was a guide in a palace and I loved that I knew where the secret door was but did not love that there was a tapestry featuring a goat whose eyes followed me no matter where I was in the hallway.
I have always wanted a house with a secret room or even better a secret staircase. And I like nothing better in a book when these things turn up.