Dusky Semaphore


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White curtain in warm light: photo by Christoph Michels, 2006




Ghosts do wear sheets but not for sleeping.

Sometimes people die while still alive
and then come back to life
only partially. You can read the signs 
around the eyes, which get  
a dusty look like burned out hundred watt bulbs.

When they pass one another on the streets  
there is a soft noise, as of muslin touching.




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Untitled 1738: photo by Todd Hido, 2003 (Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York)

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Untitled 1726: photo by Todd Hido, 1996 (Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York)

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