Poems by Rosemary Norman from videos by Stuart Pound
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TO BE A GHOST

To be a ghost is to unwind
evenly into light
off a notched spool, or rather
to be unwound, be run up
against the rotating O
that moves you. The forced end.

To be a ghost is to inhabit
what happened, once,
as a thin ribbon of frames.
Your former voice and footfall
dubbed on a sensed lack
in your ears, stalk and mutter.

To haunt is to be attached
not to the living
but the screen that animates
the intermittent darks
you are now, and finds red
in a beard that was yours before.