Friday, May 11, 2018

APPARITIONS

Apparitions live within mind folds;
dart in and out like zig-zagged thunderbolts;
briefly illuminate the dark with summer heat lightning.

These vague, shadowy creatures have to be read silently
without lip movement or voice;
they roam at will across sensed landscapes
And haunt bleak, time-filmed realms.

Eavesdropping discloses their dialogues as
they assemble themselves
into harmonizing strings and babbling tin-cans—
strange, discordant flickers of ephemeral text—
unrestrained, jagged pulses that surge forward and retreat.

These shades command attention in dark nights;
seize upon stillness to breed their frenzied lineage;
torment their hosts with incessant jolts; and
fling open doors to fear and invention.

Hovering specters flood cavernous minds,
shapeshift to elude capture and
taunt any who want to behold them. 

©cmheuer, 2018 

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