Re: "Winter Ghost (Taking A Time Out)" / Will Dockery (Ping: G.J.D.)

Will Dockery wrote:

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Winter Ghost (Taking A Time Out)

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I woke up the next morning
with freeze frame memories
in that February gloom.

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Stepped out of the
creepy boarding house
locked the door
to my little room.

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Walked across the park
to that little creek
I saw Paige across the way
roller skating on the ice.

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I had an awareness
of her copper colored eyes.

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interlude
from the days of love and rage.
She smiles through the mist
she turns the page.

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It was cold
the sky was grey
I lit my pipe
there was a little spark
of flame.

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Paige skated over
and sat next to me
by that old abandoned train.

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We talked of airwaves and poetry
and a mansion on the hill.

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But now
everything's changed
I don't even know how
I guess I never will.

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Taking a time out
from the love and rage
Paige waves sideways
as she skates away
she turns the page.

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It's been forty years now
I went back
and retraced my steps.

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Walked by and looked
where the old boarding house was
there was nothing of it left.

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I walked across the park
to that little creek
I sat down under
that same old tree.

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I felt a little tingle
in the air,
I felt like her ghost
was sitting there with me.

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Interlude
from the days of love and rage.

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Paige smiles at me
through the mist
like a winter ghost
then she fades away.

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-Will Dockery 2020

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From the Shadowville Mythos poetry blog:
https://shadowville-mythos.blogspot.com/2021/04/taking-time-out-i-woke-up-next-morning.html

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(Reposted for George J. Dance)

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Cool poem.... good choice......!