Borley Rectory, Douglas, was once celebrated as 'the most haunted
house in England' .
I'm still trying to get the piece right - it's very hard to write
about things on the periphery of sight and vision, you have to focus
the out-of-focus. Below is one of several versions of it as now
stands, but still not quite there I think:
Borley Peripheral
Peripheral, the visions
of slowly fading ghosts,
legacies willed by pictures,
prints off plastered walls,
vanishing now like steps
of blue unfolding smoke.
Hark as the night's herded
mists creep: a house creaks
in timbers to your ears.
Shapes detach from sounds,
names drift loose from fact.
Peripheral, the visions,
the vigils that us keep.
On 13/04/2008, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I like it, David, but is Borley a place, a person, or a typo?
>
> Doug
> On 13-Apr-08, at 5:26 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
>
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> > Borley Perceptible
> >
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
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> Latest books:
> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> Wednesdays'
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
>
> A little planet blues, for the
> deathwatch.
> A season of rictus riffs.
>
> Dennis Lee
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David Bircumshaw
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