Down Ghost Lane
Down Ghost Lane
The opening (title) poem deals with revisitation of childhood haunts. The Water Serpent and the She-Serpent recalls Keats’s Lamia. I was Born a Horse is an allegorical life story, from childhood to old age. He ventures, physically and mentally, into uncharted dimensions. The Shy Cold Moon is charmingly deified. Ebbs and Flows uses the elements as metaphors for a human life. Sanatorium – a Survivor poem par excellence. In the Final Count mourns a bereavement. Out of the blue it was you – a flashback to romantic, enduring and spiritual love. Key embraces the ups and downs of life, and the interrelation of dream and reality. Blackbird Soul reflects on the question of the immortality of the departed. Jean’s Secret explores a suicidal drowning – where total communion with the sea represents the fulfillment of life.
