spectral hosts for lingering ghosts - original poem

 

Spectral hosts for lingering ghosts

I wonder how many

ragged rotten spirits

peer at us

as potential spectral hosts

Through mirrored ledges

and planes poised planar

on the pear-green painted walls

craftily affixed

to equidistant vertices

yet –

We are either too pre-occupied

or too caught up

in the gushing sense of turbulence

to hear their tales

and read their lengthy biographies

Never recording them at accurate levels

for the rest of the world to hear

and wear like thrifted clothes

or either too skeptical

of superstitious fantasies

So we get dehydrated

bone dried – inside and out

so forgetful we become

that we need the moon’s drippings

to stay hydrated

Or else the wisdom of the sun

will burn our borrowed bodies

forcing our uncocooned cages of light

to flicker freely

in a world designed

on the basis of

electromagnetic disturbances

We just learn

how to clip the waveform

Prevent aliasing

from ensuing

on the captured EVP

LINK:  https://allpoetry.com/poem/16517556-Spectral-hosts-for-lingering-ghosts-by-Colvet