Saturday, August 6, 2011

When You've Seen a Ghost

The difference between
wake & sleep
is less obscured than
your friends might think.

The bell still rings
at the prescribed time;
appointments await
or remain unscheduled.

No one comments:
You look like...
(as they drift on by
pasty in Egyptian sheets).

The light in the hallway,
always on,
casts a twisty shadow
on a childhood wall.

What the ghost said:
Faith, if it is at all,
is a fragile thing,
waste no time worrying.


What you look like
when you've seen a ghost
is nothing different than
the faraway look in a window mirror.



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