Nanny's basement

 In the basement
half filled with water
the figurines of superheroes
surged up like fizz

The Nanny lorded over these waters
and in the darkness she would wail
baby mice crawling up the walls
tickling themselves on the rough brick

she told those old legends
about the child eel that became an adult
growing wildly strong and massive
from feeding off the cattle

Then to avoid the ensuing storm
entered the ugly gash inside the building
to thresh about in the slowly rising waters
That would accumulate and become the nanny itself

The steps to the basement
were litttered with pets food bowls
Above a house full of roosters
bragging until the fire lit

Nanny controlled the whole mess
even the crytpic ghosts that surfaced from the water
ascended the stairs and traumatized the spoilt children
cloning itself and occupying several rooms simultaneously

Rumours and mysteries that the onlooker could not glean
even from looking under the cracked paint on the external walls
the soup forming its own acidic foam in the basement
the eery silence of the entire structure

only to burst into movement and sound as the living things came alive
from the sloppy pond inside the basement