Spirit Photography

Her empty deckchair

Lies by the sandboat

That she dug out

At low tide

A woman in the sunshine

In a fox fur

And flapper hat

Clear then fading

Bleached figure

On the water’s surface

Photographic negative

Ripples and echoes

Another life

Spirit photographs

Bleach the shadows on the wall

Answers a call

Some need in us for ghosts

Some need in us for hope

Spirit photographs

Bleach the shadows on the wall

Answers a call

Some need in us for ghosts

Some need in us for hope

A jolly spirit

At the far end of a hall

Confronts me

Light shimmers

Through a body in the fog

Trance and transparency

In a shutter’s click

My memory is fixed

To a contact print

Spirit photographs

Bleach the shadows on the wall

Answers a call

Some need in us for ghosts

Some need in us for hope

Spirit photographs

Bleach the shadows on the wall

Answers a call

Some need in us for hope

Some need in us for ghosts

Music and Lyrics by Jonathan Burt

Running time 7.13

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