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& when does moment transfigure to myth?
& who drives its tableaus & trapdoors, the cables
Enabling flight? The credulous & gullible—
Shamanized or conned?
The dearly departed is froth
& smudge. She hovers ectoplasmically
Above her mother’s hat, mother whose own face
Has been scoured to iconoclastic nothingness.
Back ramrod straight, the Colonel squats uneasily,
Visage tabula rasa, awaiting from The Other Side
Some signal, token, evidence. Annabelle’s
Dear Voice, or her Spirit Writing, ethereal
In the turbid studio dark; a lock of hair to materialize
& for an instant, hold. We are poor passing facts,
Named but faceless.
Each of us a famished ghost.
Introduction
Something of Us to Prove Our Afterlife: Notes on “Ochre”
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements