ghosts
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Hauntings
We are our own ghosts.We are what goes bump in our nights.We the ones who rearrange the nicknacks,later confounding ourselves,wondering who (or what?) moved that thingfrom the living room to the bedroom,from the study to the garage. We are the… Continue reading
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Living with Ghosts
We all live with ghosts. They are the people we see through,pretending they don't exist. They may be in our house,on the bus,or in the next cubicle at the office. We sit beside them in church,at the ball game,or in… Continue reading
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This Garden
This garden,hidden up the hillabove the oldest gravestones,has a gate but no fence. I enter through the gate,though it means extra stepsaround the overgrown perimeter. This gardenis lush with silver leaves–no flowers, no buds preparing to open, no dried… Continue reading
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I Don’t Believe
"I don't believe in hauntings,"she said."There's always some sortof rational explanation." "I've heard your rational explanations,"he answered,"and many are so absurd,not even a ghost would believe them." Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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The Hungry Ghosts
The hungry ghostsenter our homesafter the light dimsafter our eyes closeafter our souls set. The hungry ghostsfeast on the remainsof our day's banquet: burned toast, misplaced attention, unseen beauty, hoarded mercy. The hungry ghostsare those of uswho starved to deathseated at the feast.They leave… Continue reading
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Halloween: Ghosts
The woman believes in ghosts. She believes in ghosts because, each night around two in the morning, she sees them. They enter her bedroom, and, in the dim light from the streetlamp halfway down the block, she makes out their… Continue reading