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      April 22, 2021SupernaturalLaura Theis

      Image: “Into Thee” by Susy Kamber. “Supernatural” was written by Laura Theis for Rattle’s Ekphrastic Challenge, March 2021, and selected as the Artist’s Choice.
      mist is water
       
      without surface
       
      and yet it will not
       
       
      only swallow the past but
       
      bring it up again too
       
      if it feels in the mood
       
       
      let me tell you how
       
      it steps through the vapour
       
      towards you now
       
       
      not like a twin trapped
       
      in a mirror reaching both hands
       
      towards you through the glass
       
       
      or a pinniped
       
      coming up for air
       
      from the unsounded deep
       
       
      not like a sleeper breaking
       
      through a dream’s stillness
       
      into the clang and dry of the waking
       
       
      no it emerges
       
      composed and unhurried
       
      moving backwards like a riddle
       
       
      a girl wearing not so much
       
      a dress as a violent
       
      blaze of chenille
       
       
      determined to make you
       
      say that you now
       
      believe in ghosts

      from Ekphrastic Challenge

      Comment from the artist, Susy Kamber

      “I love the intent of the meaning of your poetic response. For me it describes determination. In this instance a belief in ghosts. How does a belief in anything occur? The description paints this ghost-like appearance powerfully enough for me, in such descriptive words, that in the end I might also begin to wonder. Ghosts playing words into a determined desire to have you in their field and maybe that’s something only ghosts can do.”

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