Elegy for Unfinished Lives

A ghost poem film. Directed, written, filmed, edited, read, and produced by Adam E. Stone. Ghost woman paintings by Saribenne Evesong (1931-2009). Download HD version from Vimeo link. Available as an Apple Pro Res 422 (1.55 GB) version upon request. Use "CC" button on Vimeo player for closed captions, via Web VTT file. Text of poem:

As if I were more than a ghost, she loved me

because I took the time to listen

Among the weeds, below the trestle

alive ... alive ... in the animal instant

Then .. she was quiet ... lost again

I sat with her shade, at the edge of the river

watched her cast her shreddings into its flow

I wondered if they even tried to know her

fathom the ink spots staining her hands

She lived a glorious life in those letters

Awkward ... perhaps ... but understood

Destined, she was certain, to be remembered

Not thrown alone into an unmarked grave

"Does a love that was never alive ever die?"

She riddles me, over infinite waves

Her laughter shakes the birds from their trees

Her skeletal shoulders slip through my hands

Tell me what it means to be human ...

pushed down by a wind, pulled under by a sea?

We're less and less with every breath

and yet we live to outlive the rest

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