Reverend Ralph Hardy Photographs The Tulip Staircase Ghost, 1966
experts from Kodak say
there is no evidence
in the negative, nothing to prove
nonexistence of her clutched hands,
deny her head’s sharp tilt.
if she exists, why not also
the figure in crinoline
who walked through walls?
why not the pale woman
and her bucket of blood?
what expert will verify
my unbelief?
Tony O’Rahilly Sees Jane Churn As Wem Town Hall Burns, 1995
how long will you stay
at the scene of your mistake?
candle catching the roof.
church bells melted in their steeples.
how do you calculate
the visibility of guilt?
a year to rebuild.
a price for what’s gone.
where can you go when the fire
chooses someone else?
only one man died.
he was utterly consumed.
Unknown Ghost At Tewin Bury Farm, Neil Sandbach, 2008
I have no time
for the specters of men,
against all claims imagine
a girl-ghost as I want
all ghosts to be,
so I can be them –
a glow & lurk
in the corner
of a test shot,
a small still shape
you can see right through
to the sky.
Adam Ellis Posts Pictures Of Dear David, 2017
the light organizes itself
around what’s not there
in each new frame
the figure creeping closer
how near to the lens
for a lack of belief
the distance between
an eye and its object
the idea of pain
not the pain itself
enough photographs of absence
reveal a perfect silhouette
