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Subject: Re: "Winter Ghost (Taking A Time Out)" / Will Dockery (Ping: G.J.D.)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2025 14:52:37 +0000
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On Mon, 6 Feb 2023 21:25:48 +0000, Zod wrote:

> Will Dockery wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, January 25, 2023 at 5:45:37 PM UTC-5, Zod wrote:
>>> > Will Dockery wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > > Winter Ghost (Taking A Time Out)
>>> > >
>>> > > I woke up the next morning
>>> > > with freeze frame memories
>>> > > in that February gloom.
>>> > >
>>> > > Stepped out of the
>>> > > creepy boarding house
>>> > > locked the door
>>> > > to my little room.
>>> > >
>>> > > Walked across the park
>>> > > to that little creek
>>> > > I saw Paige across the way
>>> > > roller skating on the ice.
>>> > >
>>> > > I had an awareness
>>> > > of her copper colored eyes.
>>> > >
>>> > > interlude
>>> > > from the days of love and rage.
>>> > > She smiles through the mist
>>> > > she turns the page.
>>> > >
>>> > > It was cold
>>> > > the sky was grey
>>> > > I lit my pipe
>>> > > there was a little spark
>>> > > of flame.
>>> > >
>>> > > Paige skated over
>>> > > and sat next to me
>>> > > by that old abandoned train.
>>> > >
>>> > > We talked of airwaves and poetry
>>> > > and a mansion on the hill.
>>> > >
>>> > > But now
>>> > > everything's changed
>>> > > I don't even know how
>>> > > I guess I never will.
>>> > >
>>> > > Taking a time out
>>> > > from the love and rage
>>> > > Paige waves sideways
>>> > > as she skates away
>>> > > she turns the page.
>>> > >
>>> > > It's been forty years now
>>> > > I went back
>>> > > and retraced my steps.
>>> > >
>>> > > Walked by and looked
>>> > > where the old boarding house was
>>> > > there was nothing of it left.
>>> > >
>>> > > I walked across the park
>>> > > to that little creek
>>> > > I sat down under
>>> > > that same old tree.
>>> > >
>>> > > I felt a little tingle
>>> > > in the air,
>>> > > I felt like her ghost
>>> > > was sitting there with me.
>>> > >
>>> > > Interlude
>>> > > from the days of love and rage.
>>> > >
>>> > > Paige smiles at me
>>> > > through the mist
>>> > > like a winter ghost
>>> > > then she fades away.
>>> > >
>>> > > -Will Dockery 2020
>>> > >
>>> > > ----
>>> > > From the Shadowville Mythos poetry blog:
>>> > >
>>> https://shadowville-mythos.blogspot.com/2021/04/taking-time-out-i-woke-up-next-morning.html
>>> > >
>
> > (Reposted for George J. Dance)
>
> One of the greatest of them all....

Good morning, Zod, thanks again for reading and commenting.

😏