Category Archives: haunting

Spectral Cinders

Posted on October 26, 2016 by Joanna M. Weston

Hallowe’en next week, when ghosts, goblins and other strange visions abound. Really weird encounters occur on the street, or at the door, at this time of year and leave one pondering … SPECTRAL CINDERS surprised by time                                             ghosts pick fairy-tale … Continue reading →

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Deserted House

Posted on August 31, 2016 by Joanna M. Weston

There are so many old houses, particularly on the prairies. They have stories in them, questions about who lived there, how their lives were governed by the landscape. Did they move out? what made them change their way of living, … Continue reading →

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The Stirring Night

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Joanna M. Weston

I’m using a form of poetry that takes off from lines from another poet’s work: a glosa. Hallow e’en. I’m hearing voices in the wind, fingers that brush the door … It’s the time when ghosts walk the night in crumbling … Continue reading →

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Gone Missing

Posted on August 13, 2014 by Joanna M. Weston

I don’t think I’m the only one who puts things in safe places and then can’t remember where the safe place is. Or I go looking for something and then can’t remember what I’m looking for. Just those days when … Continue reading →

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Soundless

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Joanna M. Weston

Halloween. ‘All Hallows Eve.’ The day when we remember the dead and pay our respects; the evening children ‘trick or treat’ from house to house … dusk, when the line between the physical and ghostly worlds is thinnest and magic … Continue reading →

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