Ghosting
2016; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 9; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/thr.2016.0064
ISSN1939-9774
Autores ResumoGhosting Kim Bridgford (bio) Now this is what we do. No tears, good-bye.We simply find a convenient alibi.No long nights crying on a jagged pillow.We Casper and we Ghost; we find a hollowThrough which we slip ourselves, in our new art. For this is how our love will come apart. It is so easy to erase a name:There. What-if is now what was. No blame.It’s nothing to pin aspiration on.(No need to think about a thing that’s gone.) We forget, like Casper, that there’s no suicideFor friendly ghosts. There is no sin or pride.The more we look, the more we shall not find.What once was love was never cruel, nor kind. [End Page 323] Kim Bridgford KIM BRIDGFORD is the director of Poetry by the Sea: A Global Conference, in Madison, Connecticut, and the curator of the Poetry by the Sea Reading Series at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Center City, Philadelphia. Bridgford is the editor of Mezzo Cammin, an online formalist journal by women, and the founder of The Mezzo Cammin Women Poets Timeline Project, a database of women poets. The author of nine books of poetry, including the recent Human Interest, she is the recipient of grants from the NEA and the Ucross Foundation. She and her collaborative partner, visual artist Jo Yarrington, are completing a three-book series, The Falling Edge, on Iceland, Venezuela, and Bhutan. Copyright © 2016 Kim Bridgford
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