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