With the photo even more powerful, Stephen. But it catches, for sure....
Doug
On 16-Nov-05, at 1:17 AM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> Ghost Chest
>
> My mother keeps a ghost upon
> Her hand carved chest. You lift
> And open the lock with a certain fear
> You know what lies within
> Emptiness or Spirits:
> What flies there
> What cries there:
> Who knows the configurations -
> The silks, the cottons, the wool
> She might have otherwise - in multiples -
> Delicately woven, folded, kept?
> I knew a woman once
> The coffin outside her house
> Deep under the family Oak
> At night a thread sped forth
> From behind the wooden latch
> Across the lawn and up the porch
> The white thread wound to
> Take her life - in one quick jerk -
> By the flute of her delicate throat.
> Night after night I sit and wonder
> Who is the ghost - what can she tell me? -
> Latched to the lock upon my mother's chest.
>
> Stephen Vincent
> Picture of the "Ghost Chest" is available on my blog:
> Blog: http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>
>
Douglas Barbour
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Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
(780) 436 3320
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I’ve never done anything
but begin.
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