Part XXII and Guest Poet 15 - Meshach R. Brencher - Dark Matter

(Part XXII moving straight on is a conversation
just before the action begins between Andy (the
narrator) and Michelle (Ghost))

(Guest Poet 15 is a young poet I have known
for a few years called Meshach R Brencher
who delivers the first of two very clever poems
which although not in Ghost Story II are very
worthy pieces in their own right)

(More of his work can be heard here and here
or read here)

XXII

Bearing the weight of the killings

Something unseen left

Wet marks on glass

Screwed up across soaked

Wrapping paper

And burst fountain pens

Scratched across the magazines

She said

Tumbling all around her

Cradling her fears

Enfolded across

An ocean of assumptions

tellingthe reporters

trapped in no-mans land

before I picked her up

sailing around a argument

littered with rhetorical rockets

and voices which she was sure

she said more than once

hurry up before more are killed

more are killed. 

Meshach R. Brencher

Dark matter

Shields translucent energy

The surface has nowhere to gravitate

Unquenched lips

Hungry with no purpose

Plunge into liquid that soon evaporates

Into thin air

The vacuum shift terminated

By application of a voltage

Malfunctioning the process to

Extinguish the flames

Not being present to be aware

Of a deficient state

Failure to attend to

What was expected

A moment that passes you by

Without witnessing a creature

Cradled in a sleepy state

While being investigated about its

Disappearance

With broad coverage on so many stories

Never told which don’t ever see

The light of day