home, 2023

The ghost of delight

Where dear spirits meet, in the depth of the night,
The heart of the forest: its eyes shine bright
The ghost sets off on its ribbon-eel route
With a foxfire entourage in pearly pursuit.
Glimpse binary stars, if you squint and see,
It growing somehow plumper, mellifluously.
It moves like a wisp, with the light touch of love,
Such an earnest forest dove.

2023, Ghost of delight, collage 2023, Ghost of delight, text
The base image is a photo from the porch in Woodstock, NY, taken by Sarah.

Synanim

Iteration 1

SJ

The ribbon-eeeleed phantasmagoria keened mellifluously
Growing somehow plumper as it neared the antiquated tree
Passing through it to the heart of the forest, followed closely
By the pearly pursuit of its ephemeral foxfire entreeage.
The black grapes were but the image of an afterthought.

Maddie

smoke plume ghost from a cigar
speech splume bubble speaking love
spinner-breaching follows stars
such earnest forest doves

Sarah

I'm a droplet
I'm a ghost
I'm the one you love the most
Invisible like the atmosphere
Spatial, maple, so unclear
You told me my eyes shine bright, shine bright
I come out with the stars at night
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associations:
Hippie ghost-town (spotted in woodstock)
Wisp
Love's wisp (visiting you)
Pure de-light (the ghost of de light?)
(You can only see me when the stars align)

Luke

squint your eyes
to glimpse binary stars
atop bubbles divide
it is only with the heart that one can see rightly
so listen to the forest, speak truly,
and you won't be ghostin'


Iteration 2

Sarah

The ghost of delight

In the depth of the forest, in the depth of the night,
its eyes shine brightly if you line up just right.
Glimpse binary stars, if you squint and see,
It growing somehow plumper as it nears the antiquated tree.
It moves like a wisp, with the light touch of love,
Such an earnest forest dove.

Maddie

Squint your eyes to glimpse binary stars
Smoke splumes speaking love
Such earnest forest doves

Invisible like the atmosphere
Spatial, maple, so unclear
You told me my eyes shine bright, shine bright
I come out with the stars at night

The ribbon-eeeleed phantasmagoria keened mellifluously
Passing through to the heart of the forest, followed closely
By the pearly pursuit of its ephemeral foxfire entreeage

Luke

In the heart of the forest,
when the stars align,
my eyes shine bright
in pure de-light
by the pearly pursuit
of my ephemeral foxfire entreeage
speaking love
such earnest forest doves
I'm a ghost
Growing somehow plumper
I'm the one you love the most