Barry McGovern
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Stands there staring beyond.
Into dark, whole again.
No such thing as whole.
Head almost touching wall.
white hair catching light white gown white socks white foot of pallet edge of frame stage left once white least
give and head rests on wall but no stock still head hot staring beyond nothing stirring faintly stirring thirty thousand nights of ghosts beyond beyond that black beyond
Ghost light, ghost nights, ghost rooms, ghost graves, ghost... He all but said, ghost loved ones.
Waiting on the rip word.
Stands there staring beyond at that black veil, lips quivering to half-heard words.
Treating of other matters.
Trying to treat of other matters.
Till half hears there are no other matters.
Never were other matters.
Never but the one matter.
The dying and the going.